Cartels break from inside because the incentive to cheat for individual profit eventually overcomes collective greed. The leniency discount rewards the first member to betray, creating a prisoner's dilemma in their boardrooms. My textbooks explain this, but I see it in my old weaving cluster—when two masters secretly used cheaper zari to undercut our fixed prices, our entire cooperative shattered.
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