Free market capitalism is not going to give me a non-x86-based PC ecosystem even if I want it, because not enough other people want it to justify the required i

Free market capitalism is not going to give me a non-x86-based PC ecosystem even if I want it, because not enough other people want it to justify the required investment. Of course for say $30G/year one could get it, and you can get whatever bread you want to for much less, but perhaps for more than you'd like to. In other words, you either need to be in the majority or to spend a lot to get what you want from a market. Which doesn't sound that great if you didn't live in a centrally planned economy where you can't buy woolen socks nor wool so what you do is you buy a woolen sweater and you make woolen socks out of that. That's the sort of unarguably idiotic waste of resources that free markets eliminate. Of course it's easier to appreciate that if you've spent thousands of hours queuing to buy some bread, any bread, than it is when the bread you can most easily buy doesn't taste as you'd want it to.