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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10351845
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I’m good having regulations
If my boss could literally own me I know he would
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There might not BE a better company. In the system you describe we’d end up with even more strictly defined economic classes, because the wealthy would have the ability to collectively decide policy without interference. You’d just be creating an oligarchy.
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Why compete when you can destroy the other companies without restrictions?
Imagine Walmart buys the local water company then cuts water off to their competitors by charging them an exorbitant amount? Or the local power company? What’s to stop them?
They can just absorb the local utilities and start intentionally giving their competitors terrible or no service and drive them out of business.
It just turns to feudalism.
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How would they get the capital together (a massive undertaking) or the equipment together (again a massive undertaking) as Walmart buys up the entire supply chain to provide the pipes and power lines?
Oh you want to hire an electrician for grid work? Walmart won’t sell you or rent you the equipment. Want to hire a plumber for grid work? Walmart won’t sell you the required equipment to set it up.
Not even that but what’s to stop them from corporate espionage? Sabotaging their competitors. “Oh we trap rain water and truck it to people. Lately people have been getting really sick from our water but not Walmarts water.”
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But their only customer would be the one store Walmart is shutting down. Why would you lay millions of dollars of pipes and more millions of dollars in purification infrastructure just for one money strapped store?
The established supplier would just buy the new competitor. If they don’t sell, the established supplier would pricedump and eat the loss, since they’re already estabished, until the new competitor agrees to be bought.
Why compete for customers? They could form a monopoly to make sure you need to pay their prices, or just threaten you into only buying their products. Unregulated markets eventually stop being markets.
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There would be the monopolies with private armies and more money than God to shut down new competition. They can lower prices for years to run at a loss locally to run the newcomer out of money, or just do a hostile takeover.
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oh you sweet summer child
Arguing with an ancap is just a waste of time.
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It seems you’ve come from a time line where we got rid of the food regulations and you’ve injested far too much lead.
Dudes a troll. Why entertain them?
Fun?
A light dunking is nice once in a while.
Fair enough. If there going to be a reason- that’s probably the only good one.
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Insulting you is really unnecessary, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
Unregulated capitalism would result in the right of the richest and you could use your power to prevent others from getting as rich.
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That’s not how capitalism works.
that’s a consequence
Nope.
Yes, it has
Edit: Here’s an even better example
It’s just a troll.
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What makes you think unregulated capitalism won’t result in these monopolies?
And the Sturlungs?
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It was the medieval equivalent of anarcho-capitalism.
That’s not capitalism. Not in the slightest.
Sure they’re not. ;)
This sounds like insanity. You think the Jeff Besos’ of the world are going to play fair when capitalism has no regulations?
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How would they go to a new one if he uses the massive power he has to absorb and destroy the competition?
How would they get there if the roads no longer connect to other areas because Bezos bought all the construction companies and makes the cost too high to maintain those roads?
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Walmart has enough capital on hand to work at a loss for a long long time before it’s an issue. How would their competitors compete when they can’t beat Walmarts prices?
Walmart has already done this with grocery stores in areas in the modern day. Lower their prices to the point of operating at a loss locally to drive the competition out of business and once their gone then bring the prices back up.
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With our current levels of regulations.
Less regulations would only make things worse not better.
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Good luck creating a competitor to AWS/Amazon.
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Russia post-Soviet Union is what you’re looking for
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oligarchy is the natural result of unfettered capitalism – capitalism rewards profit, not merit
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Unregulated capitalism is impossible by definition, because capitalism requires private property, and private property only exists because the state enforces that status.
Lol the yanks are giving it a good go, and look at the trouble they’re in.
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Yeah but their people all live in misery.
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But why would anyone want to do that when all Americans are miserable because of the hyper capitalist tyranny they exist under?
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a yes, the unregulated capitalism mindset that cause the great depression
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