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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Let's say someone gains a very big share of the market by keeping his prices low and delivering a product people are willing to pay for. That person gains a let's say 80% share of the online porn market. Should the State step in and divide up his sites so small webmasters have a better chance at gaining a bigger share of the market?
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So are you saying we charge far too much for a product many consumers don't want to buy?
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Originally Posted by u-Bob
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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What you support is irrelevant. Because if the person next to you doesn't support it you get squashed.
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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.
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So you can see clearly the intentions of these big companies and yet you want the only thing stopping them removed. The system will always be manipulated by the strongest. Give all the power to the strongest without limits and you're in trouble.
You have 3 options. Let Government make the rules that you get small chance to change every year.
Let big companies make the rules that you get no chance to change ever.
Go live on a desert island and pray no one finds you.