> Our drive to capture efficiencies through economies of scale

Is that what's happened here? It looks to me more like the billionaire/PE class's drive to capture rents through monopolies is a more accurate lens to view the situation through. Especially as it's the trope namer for chickenization

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chickenization

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenize...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chickenization&ia=web