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That's not enough to change anything. If everyone can get $X from kickbacks, then one person can afford to reduce their headline rate by $Y<$X, thus outperforming others until they reduce their price to the same equilibrium except $X of costs are now implicit.

You need some more complex notion of stickiness differing between imputed and sticker costs as I mentioned downthread for this to be harmful.



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