```Keep the market free, but if it starts becoming unbalanced, have government give it a little "nudge" in the right direction again```
Exactly my point. The Gouvernment has to look at the corporations that they don't abuse the Consumer and misuse them as well as the Market, so that they don't force other companys to do things their way.

Only an academic deals in absolutes.

well, thats a grey area already,

Who decides whats "abusing the consumer"?

wish i had a big brain.

Big gay

Big gay decides

noice

Look, as long as the coprs aren't colluding, chances are they are going to work in the best interest of the consumer

@Dr.Wol Don't do something with the Data the User gives you and don't do products that will hurt or kill the Consumer when used correctly.

competition is the best sauce

We all know gays have superior judgement

@Zer0 I'm happy for you, and yes, being called an academic now rarely comes with any respect. Keep to your research over the winter, come up with some new theory or something. Personally, even if it is sub-par to quality some professors paper may have, as long as you introduce something new to the field and develop it, you are contributing much more to society than any professor who just regurgitates the things his colleagues say.

Sooo, I had a discussion with an "intellectual" the other day... It was pretty interesting...

welp there goes alcohol banning 😛

"Don't do something with the Data the user gives you"
That's all tech and financial transactions ever, really

@Swedishmafia101 Did he actually call himself an intellectual

you can argue that Alcohol doesn't hurt you, when applied correctly.

and i can agree on don't misuse personal data,

But then again, if...

What beemann just said

```competition is the best sauce```
Problem is that some markets (or all?) tend to go towards Monopolys.

@Stefan Payne Directly to the forehead.

Can we ban thots already k thnks

@Crimsom yes, he called himself an intellectual in the most ridiculous sentence ever

@Stefan Payne Which is why governments role should be to ensure competition

@Swedishmafia101 Lmao, how humble.

Monopolys wouldn't be bad if they had the consumer at heart,

But they don't, so they inevitably go bad

ala, what they aren't doing with telcoms

Any market with a significant barrier to entry tends to monopoly.

I got into talking about fitness and the importance of a healthy lifestyle...

Big pharma has nothing on big gay

```@Stefan Payne Which is why governments role should be to ensure competition```
EXACTLY!
And ensure a fair and open market.

The Geforce Partner Programm violates this.

But what about youtube?

Youtubes market is raelly poor for profit, it has no "marketable value"

Youtube is a monopoly simply cuz theres no interest in becoming a competitor

He said this:

"I don't need to work out because I'm an intellectual, so those things don't interest me"

Or something along those lines

Hence why utilities are called 'natural monopolies', because they have massive barriers to entry: you have to built a distribution system (i.e., powerlines, generators, pipes, resevoirs, etc)

so how do you split them appart?

The ass cheeks of big gay?

Youtube is not as secure a monopoly as a utility, but it does have monopoly power due to network effects.

Youtube is a net-loss,

So no other company wants to compete,

How do you break up a monopoly in a market thats failing

Then he started making the point that it is impossible to be attractive AND smart

Like wtf

People use Youtube because everyone else uses youtube.