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[–] [email protected] 78 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The free market is going very well here

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (3 children)

This is 100% capitalism. It's not free market to have a goverment-enforced monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (9 children)

This is textbook late stage free market ideals at work. This is how the free market always ends.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (7 children)

X - ~~The system is broken.~~

✅ - The system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

When did it start?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You are correct. There would be no copyrights or patents in a free market.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the huge companies would dominate over small companies even more than they already do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Copyrights and patents are literally government enforced monopolies for huge companies. Without them, there would be a lot more competition.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Really? Calling it a government enforced monopoly seems very disingenuous.

Good luck trying to make a movie without Disney stealing it or making an invention with really effective solar panels or something without the biggest companies stealing it and bankrupt the original creator.

Copyright and patents protect everyone involved in creation and while there are a LOT of problems with the systems. Removing it entirely seems like the biggest overcorrection possible.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Or trade secrets. "Perfect information" is a bitch. Not to speak of "perfectly rational actors": Say goodbye to advertisement, too, we'd have to outlaw basically all of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (13 children)

Trade secrets don't need to be enforced much by law. You can create an ad hoc trade secret regime by simply keeping your secret between a few key employees. As it happens, there are some laws that go beyond that to help companies keep the secret, but that only extends something that could happen naturally.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

To be fair, we absolutely should outlaw at least 99% of all currently practiced forms of advertising and make it so that new forms of advertising have to be whitelisted by a panel of psychiatrists, sociologists, environmentalists and urban planners before they're allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (34 children)

What's government enforced about it? Is ARM the only allowed chip designer for cellphones?

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