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Gigantic corporate capitalism absolutely abhors competition and dynamism. Like the famous words in the movie/musical Little Shop of Horrors, "feed me!... feeeeeeeeeed me!"
Disrupters that bring more value and no harm to... lowly consumers? Don't evolve, don't adapt, better call Saul, LLP.
Corporations LOVE their own lawyers and captured government - executive, legislative AND judicial. But generally, they HATE the lawyers and government they can't own to increase their own market power -- and "personal" top/bottom lines. They choose to not conduct business in a robust unregulated marketplace, they seek to eliminate competition and control an expanding mediocre space with few players and imperfect collusions.
The modern oligopoly game is something our hard working U.S. immigrant ancestors seeking freedom and mobility would not recognize. It's rarely about "merit" or sacrifice anymore.
Oddly, if you travel to so-called communist countries like Laos, Viet Nam, or Kerala India -- you see more competitive capitalism and free markets than in Dallas or Chicago.
p.s.
We can do better - it requires better, smarter, level, just, often federal - government regulation combined with free markets. Not libertarians vs. socialists, but an intelligent combination. This applies to everything from the traditional corporate wars against consumer-controlled recording devices to uber-important net neutrality. To child labor laws. To the environment, and public health...
BTW, ask conventional republican libertarians about such matters as modern anti-trust and corporate stifling of supply & competition, or consumer harm, and you will get convoluted answers. |
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