Comment by athrowaway3z

In most parts of the world telecom & gyms are commodities - America is 'further ahead' in letting companies distort markets without regulation.

But i think you misunderstood the scope of my claim. We can argue whether its 30% or 70% of an average paycheck is spend on fungible things and per line item how much of it is fungible and not - but I was also including all the B2B sales.

Companies that let themselves become entirely dependent on specific suppliers do worse.