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

im pretty sure the ground beef in my freezer didnt take 10 years to get checked

@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

They probably did, but this was at the birth of the tech industry

While I dont like silicon valley

@Tinker Tom big dick company A, B and C individually buy a third of an industry. They form a coalition to consolidate resources. Congratulations, you now have a cartel.

In ancapistan there are no market restrictions to prevent this from happening

@Double Negative Ok, what industry

I mean, there's a lot to pick from

Aircraft? Consumer electronics? Baking supplies?

Also
>implying governments break up cartels anyways

Ok let's go with aircraft

I mean, there are anti trust laws that do exactly that

They're never enforced

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.