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Capitalism is an economic system that works best in a free market without monopolies. I believe the word you're looking for is corporatism, where huge companies
by bavell 5y ago
Capitalism is an economic system that works best in a free market without monopolies. I believe the word you're looking for is corporatism, where huge companies have subsumed the role of government (e.g. controlling speech).
- contravariant 5y agoThe fact that it doesn't work in practice doesn't mean the notion of allowing companies to do whatever they want isn't capitalist.
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThe things propping up these companies are laws. The way you break a network effect is adversarial interoperability. You build a new (ideally open) network by bootstrapping from the old one. But companies use the DMCA and CFAA and other laws to stop competitors from doing that, so it doesn't happen.