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I kinda fundamentally reject the premise here. When I say that a sandwich is "too expensive", I don't mean that there ought to be a law against selling sandwich

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  The context is dealing with the problem of the existence of a too powerful company. Dealing with a too expensive sandwich requires no laws.
  • Stupulous 5y ago
    If refusing to work with a company is impossible, it's a monopoly, right? Otherwise, you are free to respond to the too-powerful company the same way you respond to the too-expensive sandwich. If a company is using its power to do something harmful, write laws against the harmful thing, irrespective of how much power the company has. Illegalizing shadow profiles of non-users would be a good step forward, illegalizing them only for FB-sized companies would be less good. If a handful of companies are operating as a monopoly, that's already well-defined as an oligopoly. I think the only other situation where a company can be too powerful is if they get too much power over the regulators. I expect it's rare to get there without becoming a monopoly or oligopoly, but it's probably not impossible.
    • lotsofpulp 5y ago
      >If a company is using its power to do something harmful, write laws against the harmful thing, irrespective of how much power the company has. I agree, hence my explanation of why there are no laws against "too powerful" companies. It is not an actionable condition.