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02-07-2013, 02:27 AM
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I've got a business related question for Wil or Nate. Obviously the Magog Cartel is a collection of smaller companies, but how solid is the cartel? Obviously if you look at real life cartels, most fall apart after nine or 10 years because the opportunity to maximise supernormal profit outweighs the benefits of maintaining it. I would assume that even in Oddworld, basic psychology and game theory dictates that eventually the Magog Cartel would collapse in upon itself as individual glukkons break its laws for their own greedy purposes. Unless the MC is a new organisation and is currently very strong?
Given the articles Lorne links to on Facebook about how all the powerful businessmen in the world are colluding together to enslave the rest of us... he clearly believes there's something stronger than the desire to maximise supernormal profit.
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