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This looks like an appeal to nature, concerning a form of conduct that could just as well be conditioned in individuals. It also seems to place the government
by disintegore 4y ago
This looks like an appeal to nature, concerning a form of conduct that could just as well be conditioned in individuals.
It also seems to place the government in direct opposition with the wants of consumers, without acknowledging at all the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors.
- snikeris 4y ago> the fact that markets are just as often made unfree by the actions of its private actors. Example please.
- disintegore 4y agoThere are countless examples of anticompetitive conduct going all the way back to prehistory. The legal vocabulary around it pretty extensive. Since this is HN though maybe these will ring a bell : * Intel's rebate program (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2010/08/ftc-settles-charges-anticompetitive-conduct-against-intel https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2010/08/...) which ended up with a $1.2B payment to AMD * Microsoft's notorious antitrust case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....) * AT&T abusing its monopoly status and being broken up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._AT%26T) Honestly this is such an obvious notion that the fact that you're asking for examples is suspect on its own.