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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 01:37:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:21:52 +0200, D wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 11:37:56 +0200, D wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:42:22 +0200, D wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I find it tragic that something like that should be necessary for
>>>>> people to lift a finger when it comes to protecting markets.
>>>>
>>>> Almost as though free markets cannot remain free without regulators
>>>> to keep them free.
>>>>
>>> Of course they can.
>>
>> No they can’t. Left to themselves, they fall prey to anticompetitive
>> practices, deceptive advertising, price-fixing, and just plain fraud.
>> That’s why we need laws, and a Government to enforce them. Freedom
>> requires order; anarchy is not freedom.
>>
> Incorrect. Read this [useless article].

Maybe stop paying attention to content-free polemicists, and start paying 
attention to the reality around you.

Consider how long your economy would last if currency counterfeiters were 
allowed to proliferate unchecked, just for example.