Gastro-weirdtopia.
I've been thinking about how that would have to work. The idea of monopoly power is that it allows you to exert distortionary pressure on a market. Someone who straps me to a chair, forces my mouth open and feeds me grapefruit doesn't hold a monopoly over what I eat; they're forcibly coercing me.
The only way I can immediately think of someone having monopoly power over what went into my mouth is if they owned my mouth, or rented a mouth out for me to eat with, (or talk, or do whatever it is I like to do with my mouth), and their enforceable terms of service stipulated I could only eat certain things.
That's actually genuinely horrifying.
This article let's me know I'm not the only one concerned at the dominance of companies like Google and Facebook. I don't have enough data or information to judge whether my continued use of these services are going to be detrimental to me or the rest of humanity. What I do know is that increasingly I'm feeling like Facebook and Google know too much about me and have too much of my attention. I feel a little bit like a puppet, a little bit strung along. How do others here feel?
It reminds me or is analogous to this. In my opinion the food industry having a monopoly on what we eat, just as Google and Facebook will have a monopoly web content. Is this a risk on society?