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Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse. The free market left to itself w

Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse. The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems (I say most because I think some regulation is necessary and good). But it requires patience to let the market work.

mirkules 15y ago
Not so fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly The free market left to itself will eventually converge into a monopoly.
- mistermann 15y ago
  > The free market left to itself will sometimes converge into a monopoly.
- kika 14y ago
  What's true for railways or airlines is not always true for applications and web services. The barriers in the latter markets are much, much lower.
batista 15y ago
>Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse. No, all the things that I mention are instances of actual markets. Were is this free market? If it's possible, why it hasn't been seen anywhere on earth? >The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems I mean, to reason about what the free market will do IF it exists has no value. The free market, even if it was imposed by some power for one second, would have to be forcibly sustained by human agents --namely corporations, consumers, workers and the government. Nothing tells us that it would, in fact history teaches us otherwise. One might as well say: "If everybody always was pro peace and love, and never did anything bad, we would have world peace and love". Of course, but the whole point is in how to achieve that. So, to say "the free market would fix most of it's own problems" has zero value, if the #1 problem is how to create and sustain a free market itself.

mirkules 15y ago

Not so fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly The free market left to itself will eventually converge into a monopoly.

mistermann 15y ago
> The free market left to itself will sometimes converge into a monopoly.
kika 14y ago
What's true for railways or airlines is not always true for applications and web services. The barriers in the latter markets are much, much lower.

batista 15y ago

>Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse. No, all the things that I mention are instances of actual markets. Were is this free market? If it's possible, why it hasn't been seen anywhere on earth? >The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems I mean, to reason about what the free market will do IF it exists has no value. The free market, even if it was imposed by some power for one second, would have to be forcibly sustained by human agents --namely corporations, consumers, workers and the government. Nothing tells us that it would, in fact history teaches us otherwise. One might as well say: "If everybody always was pro peace and love, and never did anything bad, we would have world peace and love". Of course, but the whole point is in how to achieve that. So, to say "the free market would fix most of it's own problems" has zero value, if the #1 problem is how to create and sustain a free market itself.