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> ...private capital does not want markets. They want markets for other people but not for themselves. For themselves they want a nanny state, a powerful nann
by tablespoon 5y ago
> ...private capital does not want markets. They want markets for other people but not for themselves. For themselves they want a nanny state, a powerful nanny state, that will support them.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoThat's because making money in a market environment is hard. "Free market" theory predicts that there is no long term economic profit to be made in the face of a truly free market, in which there is perfect competition among the participants. That means that all profit in the so called "free market" comes from exploiting the conditions which make it not a free market, most prominently, information asymmetries.
- vixen99 5y agoAs lucidly explained by Peter Thiel in Zero to One.
- unraveller 5y ago"There are two types of businesses; ones that fail and monopolies"
- panick21 5y agoThis is not actually what "Free market" theory predicts beyond a very simplistic Economics 101 understanding of it.
- Seattle3503 5y agoThis touches on the "Commoditize Your Complement" phenomenon. > A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus. regulatory capture is one way to achieve this goal in your sector.
- ronenlh 5y agoAyn Rand dramatized this in Atlas Shrugged. They also want regulations which hinder competition.