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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
You really don't think very deep into things. You were screaming the Internet shouldn't be subject to laws. Now you're supporting the laws that keep it free for you to make a living on.
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I'm supporting laws? I only support the non-aggression principle. I support human cooperation an creativity, I support voluntary association, I support the free market.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Think of the laws on monopoly and creating price cartels. They stop companies banding together to decide what you will pay, not just competition. What stops a company like Microsoft buying all the ISPSs? Yes laws.
Companies that control a market would never listen to a consumer. He buys or he goes without. At least every 4 years you get some say. Guaranteed by law.  |
It seems you should take a better look at history... State intervention is what enabled cartels and monopolies. Take a look at the first 15 minutes of the Rothbard video I posted, he explains things quit well.
Who lobbied for the first preservation laws? Who lobbied for the State to create big national parks? The railway companies. Why? Because by having the State create big parks in strategic places they were able to prevent the competition from building their own transcontinental railroads that would compete with their own.
Who lobbied for banking regulations? The big banks. Why? because that way they were able to harass their small competitors. Rockefeller went even so far as calling "competition a sin".
Big corporations don't like the free market, they don't like competition. They like State intervention because they know they can control the decision making process. They fund both sides in the elections. They don't care who wins or looses an election. In the end politicians always do what is good for the big corporations.
If you really believe that the fact that the state organizes elections every 4 years gives you one bit of power, then you are very far down the road Hayek talked about.