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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen
Date: 6 Jul 2024 13:28:36 -0000
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>They are. One sentence says that free markets become oligopolies (which is 
>not true) while the other says that government regulated markets (non-free 
>markets) become oligopolies.

But they BOTH can become oligopolies.

>Either free markets create them, or non-free markets. If both create them, 
>this discussion is meaningless. Needless to say, I do not believe so, but 
>if someone does believe it, I see no point in continuing talking.

The natural state of the system is oligopoly.  A government can resist this,
or it can accelerate it.   This is why a government controlled by an informed
electorate is so important.
--scott

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