Message from @Kittys

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2019-03-11 06:42:48 UTC  

Everything wrong with it

2019-03-11 06:43:00 UTC  

You're basically saying the government should control private business

2019-03-11 06:43:28 UTC  

That is how megacorporations become powerful in the first place, by government interference

2019-03-11 06:43:31 UTC  

Sure let's just give corporations absolute power and create big mega corporations like we see today, and just pour pollution into our environment.

2019-03-11 06:43:39 UTC  

Sounds like a good idea.

2019-03-11 06:43:45 UTC  

Regulations that benefit one and choke out another

2019-03-11 06:44:04 UTC  

He's been jerking off to memories of that leftist girl again

2019-03-11 06:44:46 UTC  

No I've always been an environmentalist.

2019-03-11 06:45:13 UTC  

And against mega corp.

2019-03-11 06:45:25 UTC  

Megacorporations breed inefficiency

2019-03-11 06:45:30 UTC  

Then you'd be against socialism, but apparently you are not

2019-03-11 06:45:51 UTC  

How do megacorporations become such? Government regulations that benefit one at the expense of another

2019-03-11 06:45:51 UTC  

Look at Windows bro

2019-03-11 06:45:58 UTC  

Monopoly on computers

2019-03-11 06:46:07 UTC  

having actually read Wealth of Nations (and having a degree in the subject) it's really hard to argue that market failures such as monopolistic corporations don't arise naturally without government intervention

2019-03-11 06:46:50 UTC  

one of the main functions of government is to ensure that market failures, when encountered, are properly relieved

2019-03-11 06:47:03 UTC  

hence utilities, subsidies, etc

2019-03-11 06:47:28 UTC  

now rent seeking has distorted these functions wildly in this country and that's a problem but you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

2019-03-11 06:49:07 UTC  

Microsoft made a significant profit off selling their OSs at discounted rates to public school system across the country.

2019-03-11 06:49:19 UTC  

Public school is essentially a state owned enterprise.

2019-03-11 06:49:25 UTC  

That's a drop in the bucket

2019-03-11 06:49:43 UTC  

the real reason Microsoft took off was they hitched their wagon to the IBM PC

2019-03-11 06:50:00 UTC  

Today yes. But in a time when a lot of people didn't have PCs at home, it was respectable

2019-03-11 06:50:11 UTC  

which, having essentially an open source construction, allowed a market of "PC compatibles" to arise which in turn spread DOS

2019-03-11 06:51:06 UTC  

public schools would have never had PCs if the PC wasn't so popular, and it was popular because of its open source design making it relatively affordable and easily expandable

2019-03-11 06:51:16 UTC  

And besides, Windows is better than gay ass Mac and Linux

2019-03-11 06:51:18 UTC  

DOS just cemented the software end of things by making everything work with everything else

2019-03-11 06:51:23 UTC  

Unless you're using Final Cut Pro

2019-03-11 06:51:34 UTC  

or programming in the terminal

2019-03-11 06:52:12 UTC  

IBM clients include the Social Security Administration and Nazi Germany

2019-03-11 06:52:28 UTC  

IBM serviced everyone

2019-03-11 06:53:03 UTC  

That dirty whore

2019-03-11 06:53:20 UTC  

Credit where it's due they were responsible for computers moving to PC platforms instead of being tethered to mainframes

2019-03-11 06:55:23 UTC  

So back on track, these companies usually come to major success with a wasteful government contract (often an old college friend or relative setting up a deal) or other government intervention such as massive tax breaks, exemptions, etc.

2019-03-11 06:55:36 UTC  

And they often die from overreaching government regulations

2019-03-11 06:57:12 UTC  

Compare the free market miracle of Hong Kong against mixed economies like France

2019-03-11 06:57:37 UTC  

Singapore etc too

2019-03-11 06:57:52 UTC  

UAE

2019-03-11 06:58:04 UTC  

Taiwan

2019-03-11 07:01:35 UTC  

well the UAE is basically the Saudis but they collectively decided to turn their nation into Disneyland

2019-03-11 07:02:10 UTC  

Brutal laws. But a free market economy.