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> Businesses should be allowed to create whatever products they want, as long as they don't do anti-competitive things like work together with their competitors
by wgerard 8y ago
> Businesses should be allowed to create whatever products they want, as long as they don't do anti-competitive things like work together with their competitors to fix prices.
Or say, if they owned a huge marketplace and eventually started producing a product, and then refused to stock their competitor's product in the huge marketplace.
- reaperducer 8y agoDo you demand that the local supermarket carry every brand of chili on earth?
- wgerard 8y agoI don't think that's a good analogy; there are significant differences between a local supermarket (local, items must fit in the store) and Amazon's marketplace (global, items can be located anywhere globally within reason).
- mistermann 8y agoThe justice department(?) demanded that Microsoft stop bundling (or forcing, can't remember the specifics) IE on Windows. Laissez faire capitalism has both benefits and risks, casual/militant dismissal of concerns can sometimes have negative consequences, sometimes very severe.