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They don't. What you do is have a real capitalist system with decent antitrust protections and real market competition instead a crony capitalist system where
by bunderbunder 1y ago
They don't.
What you do is have a real capitalist system with decent antitrust protections and real market competition instead a crony capitalist system where oligopolies can easily push regulators and legislators around.
And then, once you have enabled consumers to vote with their money, they will.
- lyu07282 1y agoPerhaps some day we could try something other than fixing the problems of capitalism with more capitalism?
- b_e_n_t_o_n 1y agoWe tried that last century.
- lyu07282 1y agoReal capitalism just hasn't been tried yet /s
- bunderbunder 1y agoYou've got the sheep and the wolf in sheep's clothing mixed up. This kind of oligopolism, rent-seeking behavior, and general corruption are some of the problems capitalism was invented to fix. And the further societies stray away from actively defending a strong market economy, the more those problems start to come back.