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Comment by personomas

That's not a serious problem nowadays. Problems of monopolistic control is like a drop in a lake of water compared to the problems that our lawmakers cause by ridiculously high taxes and bureaucracy. If we're trying to fight monopolies today, we're fighting completely the wrong problems.

Competition doesn't succeed because of taxes. Tearing down Amazon or Google due to reasons of monopoly (and therefore little competition) is like tearing down a newly built building because there was a bad paint job on one of the walls! It doesn't make sense. If there are no other buildings standing, it's because lawmakers don't create an environment where others can succeed (because of taxes and bureaucracy).

We look at Amazon (for example), and say hey, they're really successful, and they're sort of alone, they must have cheated by using monopolistic control measurements, and then we search to find out how. But all alone we miss the real problems: it's the taxes and bureaucracy that don't let others succeed.

parent personomas 3 years ago

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