Monopolies can't survive without government enforcement. Free markets naturally dismantle concentrated power. The real class war pits controllers against those seeking self-determination through production.
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I do not agree. Government didn't help Microsoft win against Apple in the 80s.
The move they made, installing themselves in education, no other smaller free market competitor would have been able to achieve. This is B.S. companies becomes large and powerful, it's not clear really what we can do with the new monster that Google, Amazon have become nostr:nevent1qqsvrg4pes3jljartcs44wyev2pjhlw80cdacxnsqngum9tqaj7ezkgzyzm7669svt0xkjsju50a22zurc0qa589z2xd4yatzx6p2z64a5e0ck9g2n6
Doctors in centralized healthcare have gotten used to treating patients with a mix of dismissiveness and procedural risk management.
It's like a spoiled monopoly for those who are 100% in the state healthcare system.
I heard a story where a patient used AI to prep for the visit and made the doctor treat her seriously. As if he felt the pressure of competition of another doctor. "Doctor GuPTa", yes, but it worked.
A freer market emerged when a customer was backed by access to critical knowledge and gained agency and self-determination.
I thought that was a nice case for hard barriers can be breached with sufficient knowledge. It really changed the nature of her transaction.
You make me excited to read Ethics of Liberty ✨ which do you Like/recommend more, MES or Ethics of Liberty from Rothbard?
“Free markets naturally dismantle concentrated power” .. pretty much the definition of market competition
The “class wars” are perhaps more accurately phrased as the incumbents vs the innovators; this tension/conflict is the natural order of things .. May it never end!
Well said