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You've just describe why many Socialists 100 years were very skeptical of anti-trust as trying to sacrifice modernity to proper up a romanticized notion of the
by Ericson2314 6y ago
You've just describe why many Socialists 100 years were very skeptical of anti-trust as trying to sacrifice modernity to proper up a romanticized notion of the past as disaggregated pure-petit-bourgeois capitalism. Really not that different than the critism of the Luddites 100 years before that.
See https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-5/all-i-really-need-to-know-about-antitrust-i-learned-in-1912/ https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-5/all-i-rea...
- sudosysgen 6y agoThis line of argument reminds me of Haldane's point that economic planning can often work for the same reasons why large corporations and monopolies often work well too.
- Ericson2314 6y ago"The People’s Republic of Walmart"