Anonymous .forest 2w

capitalism is the Monopoly Factory dude. you love the Monopoly Factory, you just hate when it manufacturers Monopolies?

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Anonymous .forest 2w

“I love capitalism, I hate monopolies” Okay so you don’t love capitalism.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

capitalism doesn’t equal monopolies lmao, we have laws that prevent them and those laws are being used right now to break up ticketmaster

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Anonymous OP 2w

I feel like you can still be a capitalist who supports government intervention like antitrust lawsuits. But at that point you are acknowledging that there are flaws in laissez-faire capitalism

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Anonymous #3 2w

yeah there’s flaws with every economic system, i believe there are more flaws with socialism than there are with capitalism

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Anonymous .forest 2w

“capitalism doesn’t equal monopolies” name an industry motherfucker, let’s do this

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Anonymous OP 2w

defense industry

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Anonymous OP 2w

Pure capitalism incentivizes monopolies, everyone can acknowledge that. We have government intervention to tame the flaws of capitalism, ie antitrust courts and laws against monopolies and laws against market share. Wealth obviously wants to insulate itself, but besides telecom and advanced biotech there aren’t massive barriers to entry to starting a business.

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Anonymous #4 2w

The energy/utilities industry has pretty big barriers to entry also

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Anonymous OP 2w

grocery stores, gas stations, music streaming, video streaming, video game consoles, home contracting, engineering (all), medicine, hospitals, insurance, restaurants

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Anonymous .forest 2w

Your insinuation is that without capitalism none of those things would exist? Thats a little silly.

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Anonymous mushy.the.mushroom 2w

please read the thread, OP asked me to name an industry where there’s no monopoly

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Anonymous .forest 2w

We should leave insurance out of this, they’re consolidating and vertically integrating at an insane rate 😭

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Anonymous .forest 2w

My bad. But no I probably won’t read the thread lol

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Anonymous #3 2w

not really, i’m not saying insurance isn’t terrible i’m saying it’s not a monopoly by any means

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negative. Raytheon, lockheed, boeing, general dynamics, general atomics, marvyn, leonardo drs, northrop grumman, L3Harris, General Electric, Texas Instruments. That’s not including all the new companies like anduril. Hardly a monopoly wouldn’t you say?

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