No, again false.

It's the inflationary nature of the currency that puts companies and businesses against the consumer because the money that they work for gets inflated away at higher and higher rates than they can make the actual money and because the money doesn't do the one simple job that it is supposed to do which has maintained value into the future.

They are forced into this position of either deceiving the customer ( swap out quality of ingredients resources), raising the price and losing customers, Or maintain the same price and take the hit in the value themselves.

All of these are symptoms downstream of the devaluation of currency not of a system of maximizing profits. They are actually in doing these types of things trying to maintain profitability but are unable to because of the centralized nature and control and dispersion of the currency.

So all of these things have not happened due to capitalism all these things have happened due to centralized governance and control of the price of the one thing that is supposed to economically coordinate every individual in the economy money.

If money maintained purchasing power or actually increased in purchasing power which is exactly what happens in Bitcoin the entrepreneur or business owner or company would actually have to continually improve and give higher quality goods and services in order to maintain the price of which they charge otherwise they must charge lower prices forever due to the deflationary forces of a finite money. So would it still be evil capitalism in this scenario in which they must make their goods and services increase in quality to maintain the price in which they charge?

Well even with deflationary money, monopolies could still form. Right? They could still charge more than something is worth.

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Again how can you deem what someone else should charge? You can't, there's no argument for being able to do so.

Yeah I can't.

But this is where capitalism got us.

I believe capitalism leads to monopolies.

The competition eventually gives one company enough market share that they can then prevent anyone new from entering that market.

That is the end game right? That's how it plays out?

I don't see how bitcoin prevents this. I can help us better value or own money but it doesn't solve every problem.

I think we need decentralized marketplaces that allow for the trading of goods and services without a central authority interfering. If we can figure that out for every industry/market AND have Bitcoin then possibly we have a chance.

If those markets have price transparency we can be more informed as consumers.

Maybe we can call that Capitalism if it ever exists. But what we've seen up until now, and calling that capitalism, is not accurate.

Yes monopolies could form, but the difference here is they would be ones that were CHOSEN by voluntary interactions. There's nothing wrong with a monopoly on a free and open market without crony regulations prohibiting free entry into the market to compete with it. Which is what things like licensing, unions, climate goals etc set precedence for.