Message from @Double Negative
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i'm just using mcdonalds as a placeholder for "big company", any company could do this if they had the capital to start
The idea of a free market is not simply a single face issue
Its a system that has checks and balances
Literally and figuratively
If one company got uppity, no one else wants to support them
They could, a nightmare scenario is mcdonalds purchasing all or most beef farms with their extraordinary wealth
Because people would be pretty happy
>mcdonalds
>real meat
Same reason why people dont want Nazism or Ancap now
and the rise of syndicates whom benefit from this monopolisation
mcdonalds is real meat
The familiar is comfortable
of course there's filler
but there's still beef in those shitty thin patties
@a lone father k uh oh looks like in order to compete companies are making synthetic meat
Monopoly nullified
Oops
In a state controlled market there'd be a fucking 10 year wait to see if the meat is clear for consumption even if its literally just meat
By that time yeah beef monopoly would actually have caused massive damage
>10 year wait to see if the meat is clear for consumption
what
@Double Negative no I'm saying synthetic meat
oh
Lab grown
Why would companies want to compete when there is more profit to be made joining this syndicate which has dictatorial control on prices and market power
so a cartel?
that's exactly what's happened with oil and maple syrup
The thing is market base
@Tinker Tom father k raises a really good point
cartels exist in history, they actively destroy competition even through sabotage
Not really @Double Negative
Did microsoft not actively suppress competition until the state intervened?
In order for a cartel to be worth it, you need to have a select few companies being the only ones operating in a market
there's a maple syrup cartel in Canada right now that has complete control over the prices, they are notorious for sabotaging competitors
@a lone father k They did not, including their software was fine
@Double Negative Ok, and how do they sabotage them?
And is environmental protections preventing competition?
no idea, im not in the maple cartel
lmao
Microsoft did, they actively purchased and suppressed natural competition
@a lone father k Citation needed