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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen
Date: 8 Jul 2024 02:35:23 GMT
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:31:05 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
<7896d979-7348-9c9c-d5a1-db664baa32fc@example.net>:

> As for the natural state of the system in a free market, it is not
> oligopoly. It is a diverse set of millions and millions of companies.
> One company governing all of earth would collapse the same way as big
> governments (and I'm thinking world government) collapses due to
> inefficient organization.
> 
> The free market is self organizing and decentralised, and that is the
> natural state of it, without government creating and helping the
> behemoths we have today.

We should also do away with referees on soccer pitches, because the games
will self organize.

Seriously, I have just 2 comments:

1) The bigotry from "Anonymous" was uncalled for, and
2) "free markets" are not to be desired.  _FAIR_ markets, are.

You can't have a fair market without fair referees...and there's the rub.
_Some_ regulation is necessary.

For example:  Microsoft was adjudicated to be a monopoly at one point,
the question was if they were using that status unfairly in the market.

How does that look today?

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