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What do you mean by "illegal monopoly power" ? The word illegal doesn't mean unethical or wrong. So you will have to be very specific with what you mean. Just

by max_ 3y ago

What do you mean by "illegal monopoly power" ? The word illegal doesn't mean unethical or wrong. So you will have to be very specific with what you mean. Just because some politicians decided to write something on a piece of paper doesn't make it right. How would you want the free market to be any "better"? The philosophy of a free market means a "free" market. Freedom for businesses to use what ever strategy they want to participate. Their is nothing it is specifically optimizing for.

smoldesu 3y ago
Luckily, this is kinda the discussion I want to inspire. In today's day-in-age, greed is not inherently good. It does motivate markets, but we've made concessions in areas like pharmaceuticals where the harms are physical and undeniable. So with that in mind, I'd wager most people support some form of regulating greed. Saying that every market is better without regulation would be an extremist opinion that needs some substantiation. > The word illegal doesn't mean unethical or wrong. Nor does "monopoly" necessarily mean "illegal" in many cases. You might not agree with the politicians, but largely we agree with democracy and can empathize with victims when they present reasonable harms. In this case, enough people within and without the Apple ecosystem are motivated to compel Apple to change. If you believe in freedom of self-determination, you should be looking at this from the perspective of Apple choosing which markets they consider worth competing in. > The philosophy of a free market means a "free" market. You can be as philosophically correct as you want, but that doesn't change how law regulates the market (nor how other nations will behave). Governments intervene in the market. You're free to feel however you want about that, but first-world governments generally don't roll over when they're being exploited.

by max_ 3y ago

smoldesu 3y ago

Luckily, this is kinda the discussion I want to inspire. In today's day-in-age, greed is not inherently good. It does motivate markets, but we've made concessions in areas like pharmaceuticals where the harms are physical and undeniable. So with that in mind, I'd wager most people support some form of regulating greed. Saying that every market is better without regulation would be an extremist opinion that needs some substantiation. > The word illegal doesn't mean unethical or wrong. Nor does "monopoly" necessarily mean "illegal" in many cases. You might not agree with the politicians, but largely we agree with democracy and can empathize with victims when they present reasonable harms. In this case, enough people within and without the Apple ecosystem are motivated to compel Apple to change. If you believe in freedom of self-determination, you should be looking at this from the perspective of Apple choosing which markets they consider worth competing in. > The philosophy of a free market means a "free" market. You can be as philosophically correct as you want, but that doesn't change how law regulates the market (nor how other nations will behave). Governments intervene in the market. You're free to feel however you want about that, but first-world governments generally don't roll over when they're being exploited.