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How about actual capitalism rather than the government-enforced pro-major-corporations environment we have now? When businesses can lobby government to change t
by onion2k 4y ago
How about actual capitalism rather than the government-enforced pro-major-corporations environment we have now? When businesses can lobby government to change the rules in their favor any sort of free market is impossible...
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThe only way to get Adam Smith style markets is to forbid, and enforce the prohibition, corporations that are a large fraction of the market. No Walmart, no Amazon, no Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, no IBM, no ARM, no Toyota, VW, or Ford. Ownership structures that hide the actual owners would have to be rooted out. That way we might get slightly closer to markets where both suppliers and customers have a choice as to who to deal with.