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So we should be anticipating the breakup of those monopolies somewhere around 2076? We could keep subsidizing these companies by giving up our privacy while th

So we should be anticipating the breakup of those monopolies somewhere around 2076? We could keep subsidizing these companies by giving up our privacy while they build up said research wings, or we could just spend it on research wings that are already decades old (you know, the unis that made those companies possible). You're right, they do produce useful stuff, but it's a really inefficient way of doing it.

WalterBright 9y ago
If free enterprise does not produce innovation, or is inefficient at it, then unfree economies should be fountains of innovation. I haven't noticed any such coming from such economies.
- frgtpsswrdlame 9y ago
  The argument isn't black and white. We're a "free economy" but we still control and regulate certain things in the market. The argument is that this is a specific instance where our "free economy" is failing and so we should use government to address that. It bears no comparison to "unfree economies."
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