RE: If I Was Still On Hive

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If I Was Still On Hive

in blurt •  2 years ago  (edited)

Monopolies control a vast majority of the market.

Price gauging can be done by anyone who "overpriced" their offers, be it a mogul or a nobody.

Free markets are an automatic good. Freedom is superior to slavery. Monopolies are known since ancient times to be harmful if they eliminate competition or corner a market.

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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

(IFF) "free-markets" = "good" (THEN) how do you justify breaking up a monopoly ?

under what moral principle is it impermissible to "eliminate competition" ?


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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Based on how much it hinders Freedom of The Market. A free market implies that people are free to trade, yet they aren't free to subjugate the market to their will.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

you can't protect your personal idea of "free to trade"

without restricting the freedom of individual actors


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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

I'd argue you can't have freedom if you're subjugated by monopolies.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

so you have to be "less-free" in order to be "more-free" ?

how do you thread that needle ?


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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

Putting limits on the market share one entity can exert is not making anyone less free. Consider it a tax, that's what it represents and that's how it behaves. You can enjoy the free market, you just can't control it.

  ·  2 years ago  ·  

what if innovation creates a new market

how do you propose someone in government

control how popular a brand or product becomes ?


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  ·  2 years ago  ·  

By how much it controls. If it cannot exercise control then it's irrelevant how much market share they have. What is your major issue with denouncing such immoral and unjust Subjugation by control over an entire market sector? Do you truly believe that monopolies are Victimized, like you argue?