Several missing points here. I did not say only the socialists invented or held this belief, but I did say it was a typical view found among socialists and the socialists exploited this view to the fullest extend for their agenda of power usurpation. Can you deny it?It was a quite common belief held at the time and had little to do with whether or not one was a socialist.
"50 or 60 large corporations, each controlled by two...
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... congress with a view to encourage great corporations to present a united front in the struggle for markets abroad."
So to say that the "government is working hard" is somewhat of a lie.
Does it invalidate mine?Finally, to say that it's actually necessary for government to enact such laws validates my point.
Competition transforms into monopoly. This is a historically established fact.
Harry Guerrilla said:Market monopolization.
Most recitations, that I've seen, have links to government favoritism.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a natural effect.
Of course. But that is where this discussion is over between the two of us. You believe that monopolization is caused by government intervention, whereas I believe that government intervention goes hand in hand with monopolization.
crebigsol I'm not gonna respond to you anymore because you're weird and no fun.
Of course monopolies can exsist in the free market. Think about this
2 companies own 90% of the soda market. They decide to combine and tell all stores that if they sell anything else, then they won't be able to buy their product. 99% of the stores will stop selling other products, and it will be extremly difficult to enter the market. Then they can set up the prices and we have a monopoly.
A real life example is Microsoft. Miscrosoft can deliever inferior products to a high price without losing completly to their competitors. Because a lot of programs and games only work on windows, then people can't switch. Also, to increase their monopoly, computers are now preinstalled with Windows.
Blackwater was a bunch of washed up wanna be green berets before bush came along and integrated it into the government. Is this where your going?
Microsoft is a monopoly because they have permission from the government and no one else is allowed to market their product.
Premission to do what?
To retain a monopoly.
They have copyright and only they are allowed to market the Windows series of operating systems.
Imagine if others were allowed to have access to the MS source code to create their own version of Windows.
We could have multiple competing versions, probably superior to what we have now.
No, if we didn't have copyright then there would be no Windows, because no one wants to invest if someone else can just take what they have done and steal it. Copyright is one of the elements of a market economy, like property rights. And I also would expect libertarians to be in favour of copyright.
If that were true, I wouldn't be surfing the net on Firefox, have a pc with Ubuntu (another pc, not this), I wouldn't have Miro and I wouldn't have my free anti virus.
Just food for thought.
I'm fine with very limited copyright, not modern versions.
A simple question to start a discourse.
I do not believe in natural monopolies since they wouldn't exist in a free market. They only exist when the government regulates in favor of established businesses, which bars entry into the marketplace from newer competitors.
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