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state has a monopoly on sending the regular letter envelopes
Well, all the junk mail companies, for a start
they still use letters
doesnt make sense to give ANY corporation legal privileges to monopolize a market
Well, another way to put it would be that the postal service was grandfathered in as a monopoly
By the time most of the big parcel-shipping companies were created, the USPS had already been shipping letters for quite some time
privatize the post office because they should be subject to market competition just like everyone else in the organic market
i think a totally free market naturally tends towards monopolies because of economies of scale, there needs to be some method of encouraging competition in order to advance economies
doesnt matter... its an unfair business practice ... its just a business/corporation after all
NO reason why it should have monopolistic legal privileges
agree that monopolies are bad, but either extreme creates monopolies
not really..... what are some examples of true free market monopolies?
standard oil
aside from the fact that only "Facebook" can do facebook, etc
the bigger you get the cheaper per unit of x you can buy
but you see... all these big corporations get all sorts of subsidies and kickbacks and other PRIVILEGES from the state
so not really free market
which is why we have antitrust laws
yes that also comes with scale
and i agree is bad
the thing is..... the bigger a business/corporation/organization gets... the more inefficient it gets
so the easier it is to compete with them from more efficient smaller businesses
Hang on, playing devil's advocate for a moment, why shouldn't you be able to buy out a politician if you've got enough money?
If you've got the money, why not spend it?
Re-invest in the market, as it were
theres really no good examples of truely free market monopolies because free market competition always keeps incumbants in check
morally speaking there is a conflict of interests, since politicians present themselves as serving the people
but interesting question
Yeah, but that doesn't make the act of buying them wrong in and of itself. Their decision to accept the offer is what's wrong, according to that logic.
and big corps "monopolies" lobby for all sorts of regulations in order to quelch competition.... to make the barrier to entry much harder
bcuz big corps can afford it, but small business cannot afford smothering regulations.. so it works in the giants' favor
theres a lot more going on in Venezuela than meets the eye
i think both parties are in the wrong in that situation
Iran is funding lots of evil thuggary and MS13 in S. America
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)
listen to this video in my response to your video on Venezuela
sure