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>You're begging for a way to enforce capitalism while taking away Apple and Google's right to practice capitalism. Capitalism and it's benefits isn't necessari
by modo_mario 6y ago
>You're begging for a way to enforce capitalism while taking away Apple and Google's right to practice capitalism.
Capitalism and it's benefits isn't necessarily self-sustaining and enforcing in the same way that total democracy can still have a party participating democratically to end it.
If you allow every anticompetitive market practice depending on the sector you quickly loose the benefit of open competition that one might expect from capitalism.
> What you're advocating for helps no one aside from you (and people in your profession) and hurts consumers.
If people in his profession include the countless companies developing stuff for these platforms then obviously yeah and that's not a bad thing.
If Google and apple can kill competition if they enter a market on their platform then that reduces competition.
If they can use their platform to prevent competition in a segment of it where they are established then that stops competition.
Competition serves the consumer but is not inherent.
The high fees that google can ask due to their market dominance get passed on to the consumer and thus do not benefit the consumer.
The market dominance is something they can retain and enforce with minimal competition due to a mix of their clout and anticompetitive practices.