where did the idea that "markets of ideas" resulted in all the "wrong" ideas being removed from the market, one winner take all? that's not how (healthy) markets work, markets are about options "finally, one right idea" is totalitarianism
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Replying to @averykimball
Monopolies are fine in principle as long as they aren't legal monopolies
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Replying to @Alephwyr
lol, everything is fine "in principle", because principles are irrational commitments monopolies are also *evil* in principle, by the same reasoning rape is fine *in principle* if allowing rape is one of your principles of course, monopolies are fucking awful for many reasons
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Replying to @averykimball
There aren't really enough examples of non legal monopolies to tell whether they are good or bad
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Replying to @Alephwyr
We haven't re-ran the big-bang, but we know that happened because of our best theories, and our best theories say: mergers are *bad*, microsoft is *fucking fucking fucking bad*, monopolies are fucking really bad
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Replying to @averykimball
The market can decide whether the downsides are worth the benefits. And again, basically all examples of monopoly are legal monopoly
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Replying to @Alephwyr
the market is *demonstrably, provably* too stupid to do that *property ownership* is a monopoly on resource use, so you are technically right- the government enforces all the awful monopolies that plague our economy through protecting property
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Replying to @averykimball
The only alternatives to property are other forms of property
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Replying to @Alephwyr
what does this have to do with anything? i'm not arguing socialism, i'm pointing out that markets are fallible, and monopolies exist i mean, your statement essentially supports the idea of natural monopolies, in conjunction of my statements
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Markets are fallible but they're also better than anything else. Property rights are imperfect and in some cases like IP utterly abhorrent and disfunctional, but in general are better than anything else. Nothing human can get us past the limitations of being human
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Replying to @Alephwyr
oh, i'll just agree (with caveats) with you there except the part where the human can't get us past the limitations of being human- humans do this all the time, and they usually (hopefully) put that limitation-defying innovation onto the market i'm not anti-market, alephwyr!
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