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Google would be able to use these additional revenue streams to cross-subsidize still more preemptive line extensions, and would be able to damage still more software vendors, including previously unassailable players like Microsoft and Amazon.
Eric K. Clemons: The Google Consent Decree: Consumers Should be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Now people who reliably pay their bills no longer cross-subsidize higher-risk customers — which arguably makes pricing fairer — and people who used to be too risky for standard pricing can get credit cards.
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And that way lies duopoly, because only cable companies and telcos can cross-subsidize.
TWC to Customers: You Don’t Want Tiers, You Don’t Get Super-fast Broadband 2009
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Google would be able to use these additional revenue streams to cross-subsidize still more preemptive line extensions, and would be able to damage still more software vendors, including previously unassailable players like Microsoft and Amazon.
Eric K. Clemons: The Google Consent Decree: Consumers Should be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Google would be able to use these additional revenue streams to cross-subsidize still more preemptive line extensions, and would be able to damage still more software vendors, including previously unassailable players like Microsoft and Amazon.
Eric K. Clemons: The Google Consent Decree: Consumers Should be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Eric K. Clemons 2011
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Now people who reliably pay their bills no longer cross-subsidize higher-risk customers — which arguably makes pricing fairer — and people who used to be too risky for standard pricing can get credit cards.
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All you need to do is regulate in such a way that only large corporations, with buildings full of lawyers and the ability to cross-subsidize between services, can survive.
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Insurance depends on younger, healthier people signing up to cross-subsidize the older and sicker, but under the Class program as written almost all of its enrollees would soon also be beneficiaries.
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Google would be able to use these additional revenue streams to cross-subsidize still more preemptive line extensions, and would be able to damage still more software vendors, including previously unassailable players like Microsoft and Amazon.
Eric K. Clemons: The Google Consent Decree: Consumers Should be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Eric K. Clemons 2011
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That said, Aaron Brady has argued (here and here) the clear case the problem proposed is usually one of bad faith, that humanities tend to cross-subsidize the sciences, as sciences like medicine are expensive to teach (labs, chemicals, machinery) and humanities like English are less so (a book).
The 21st-century retreat from public higher education Michael Konczal 2010
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