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I generally have the feeling that a lot of people don't "really" understand what the world "capitalism" means/entails. Like they often quote why capitalism is
by dathinab 2y ago
I generally have the feeling that a lot of people don't "really" understand what the world "capitalism" means/entails.
Like they often quote why capitalism is supposedly good and that because of this various marked oversight mechanism are bad. But fail to realize that all the good parts really only work if you have a capitalistic system in the original meaning of the word.
I.e. you have a properly competing open marked where consumers have in practice a real choice to vote with their money.
But in the real world there can be various things which can fundamentally undermine capitalism with the most obvious one being monopolies. When too many of such things come together in a too dominant way the practically eliminate the benefits capitalism has for a country at which point is as much still capitalism as a strawberry cake from which someone removed all strawberries is still a strawberry cake.
But too many people (IMHO often without realizing) push for making it illegal to keep strawberries in the strawberry cake because how would the bakery make money of the strawberry cake has to contain strawberries.
Anyway at the core all of following is in conflict with capitalism: patents, copyright, DRM (the apple case is kinda form of forcefully removing DRM like restrictions), IP law, goe fencing etc.
And especially for patents we have a lot of IRL examples how having them less can vitalize a marked.
But at the same time there are also a lot of reasons to have all of that in some form (not necessary the current form) because in the end the real world are a bit more complicated then the ideal of capitalism.