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Not to be that person, but the free marketplace doesn't exist. All markets are legislated, and government picks winners and losers all the time, and that's not

• systemvoltage 5y ago
  I am fine with legislation that improves competition. Usually safety as well but that is misused (California cancer warnings) and ulterior motives hides behind "It's for the children". We should question anyone that wants to implement legistation without proper debate and vigilence. Instead, we are frothing for legislation at every opportunity, but I don't see solid public debate about it. Revolving door in DC is spinning faster by the day, but no one seems to care.
• yywwbbn 5y ago
  Unregulated markets are very rarely ‘free’. Without government interference we ussually end up with a monopoly/oligoply who do whatever they and basically start acting like the government.
  • denton-scratch 5y ago
    Back in the early 70s (the Vietnam War was still on) my father was working for a glass company that made TV tubes (among other products). He told me that TV manufacturers knew how to make TV screens so thin and light you could hang them on the wall like a picture. He said they weren't bringing them to market because they were making plenty of money selling cathode-ray tubes. The first LCD laptops rolled along into shops about 1990, but it was at least 2000 before flat-panel TVs appeared. TV manufacturers have been in cartel-mode for at least 50 years.
    • hunter2_ 5y ago
      Laptop screens can get away with poor range of viewing angle because they typically aim directly at the viewer. The same isn't true for TV screens. I'm not saying there wasn't a conspiracy, but there also weren't good viewing angles in those 90s laptops.