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Consumer harm has been THE ideological buzzphrase since the Reagan administration. You think this is "your" premise but in fact its the dominant ideological be
by WhatIsDukkha 8y ago
Consumer harm has been THE ideological buzzphrase since the Reagan administration.
You think this is "your" premise but in fact its the dominant ideological belief of anti-trust enforcement since the Reagan administration.
This dogma is WHY we are in such a bad straight with companies with aggressive monopoly power in market after market (it extends FAR beyond tech).
Libertarian'ish ideas like yours are in fact the consensus reality in public policy.
- pitaj 8y agoIf libertarian ideas were the status quo, there would be a lot less regulation than there is. I don't care about just anti-trust. The entire bureaucracy of the regulatory state affects the competition throughout the economy.
- WhatIsDukkha 8y agoWhat I've said is historically uncontroversial. https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... For bonus points - Please list a successful libertarian society - contemporary or historical. In fact you can't. That because libertarianism is a type of utopianism. The society you aspire to can't exist with actual human beings in it.