Chavez always talked about "exporting" the revolution, etc

in addition to cost/unit benefits of larger scale, you also have network effects in some industries where ppl naturally tend to bigger networks (like social media)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg_xr9WCwTk

listen to this video in my response to your video on Venezuela

sure

thats okay tho... vinc.co.... ppl vote with their dollars ..... democracy only belongs in the marketplace.... not from the barrel of a gun

I want Rockefeller back!

Which Rockefeller?

plus as i mentioned..... smaller businesses can compete with them easier bcuz theyre more efficient ... so there will always be an ebb and flow of small/large businesses

so the problem is once monopolies get established they could then in theory now charge whatever they want

and when has that ever happened?

and the funny/ironic thing is......

thats exactly how the government operates already.... arent you concerned about that?

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Big Oil

tobacco, steel, oil, ...

big oil is a single corporation?

you just listed industries

Some pharmaceutical companies

on drugs that only they make

maerkets whre thre is only comcast

AS IF there arent smaller businesses in those industries lol

I thought big oil was a giant man made of oil

Poptarts, you're dismissing what are potentially valid counter-arguments on technicalities

again..... you cannot prescribe this an effect of capitalism bcuz of all the lobbying and privileges that corps like comcast get unfairly from the government .... thats an effect corporate welfare youre describing

do you think water should be privatized?

the telecom industry is SO heavily regulated by the govt that you cannot point to how it appears today as a phenomonen of capitalism bcuz its not

Technically, water is already privatized in some areas

chicken and egg right? they only get privileges from govt after they got huge. even without govt inteference the barrier to entry in building a telecom network is massive. early adoper / network effects wins

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you really need to think thru this stuff.... if invent some device that synthesises water, or of i go off an invest TONS of money to purify say SEA WATER..... of course that would be my private property

not to mention that you already BUY water in one way or another

bottled water

nobody would be entitled to take pure water from that that i have created with my own labor

and the "public" water system of course... tap water, etc

as if you dont already have to buy it!

purifying sea water makes the water yours? who did you buy the sea water from?

we also have the whole "raw water" thing

nobody owned the sea water to begin with ... it was a raw material that was transformed and i added value to it

value is added by the market though

the real question is .... what claim would anybody else have on sea water that i have purified?