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RE: Big Pharma Conspiracy Hiked Prices 1,000%, Being Sued by 44 U.S. States
The first monopoly was over olive presses, it was done simply to be achieved, by one individual. Monopoly is a consequence of the bottom line.
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Thats good and well but in purely free market monopoly would be a natural response from improving on the bottom line. The first monopoly was after all simply a matter of one individual seeking to see what would be the consequences of cornering the market, which like he predicted, would be both extremely lucrative for the business and catastrophic for the public. The only thing that can correct it so far, is the public through the process of law.
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Is government not a monopoly?
In the abstraction of what monopoly is, but what's your argument? To privatize justice and law?
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I believe in the 4 branches of government which is there for balancing power.
If by the 4th branch you mean People keeping the government to their word and not buy bullshit for shoe shine then that's fine, otherwise it grew a branch, but it's beside the point, you believe that monopoly is something that happens not in free market or that what the article is talking about couldn't happen in a true free market but I'm saying that monopoly is a natural consequence of freedom and the bottom line, whether it is because of ambition or greed or even to see if it could be done like Thalos did with the olive press market/demand, it's is all in maximizing efficiency/increasing returns. Most crapitalists truly think that free, unfettered demand and supply is the best thing ever, shortsighted though because taken to it's conclusion we are left with one ring to rule them all, one conglomerate, one Big-n-Low.
I think it's a natural consequence of competition, especially when ethics seem like if the price is right and the offer is accepted then nobody was taken advantage of. I don't agree, it is exploitation as far as I'm concerned. Capitalism is far from perfect and it relies on exploitation not of ideas like it wants to tout but of wealth, labor and ultimately people, and it doesn't advance us, it only pits us on endless carrot chasing on our hamster wheels/roles/jobs while the wealth keeps concentrating and accumulating in the exploiters pockets who either get vilified or adored, condemned or commended but who are among the best or luckiest at accruing wealth. The irony is that there was never any such a thing as money, and there could never be such a thing as a unit of measure cannot be tangible, exactly like a gallon, a yard, the number 1, and all such abstractions are only abstraction and cease being abstraction when they are tangible. You cannot have a limit on units of account and expect people to be able to valuate anything correctly with an ever scarce, constantly fluctuating, representative token, so in reality all you have is a system of wealth representation, wealth, actual wealth being resources or labor, yet wealth throws itself after meaningless tokens that "everything is worth" and represented with because competition over tokens is out if this world.
I don't think we can have capitalism until the oxymoron of money being a tangible, unique, constantly fluctuating unit of measure is resolved, then maybe we can discuss taxes, limits and checks so that wealth flows out of exploitation of human labor and hoarding of resources and into the invaluable people themselves, because I think it's ridiculous to think that capitalism, unfettered trade, will empower people as it subjugates people and exploits demand and supply over essentially a frantic game of holding onto and gathering more and more wealth.
As the current famous president once said in an interview regarding what he was going to do with all the millions :
"Make more millions"
And when asked, and what's he going to do with those millions..
Make mur millions.
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Free Market has always existed since the dawn of time, for thousands of years. Therefore, you could say that monopoly cam from it as it has always been around. However, monopoly can be a result of a combination of things. We don't live in a vacuum.
Black Markets
Monopoly can spawn partly from black contracts between companies and government. Moreover, it can come from segregation and prohibition caused by tyranny government.
Competition
Monopoly is a lack of competition. The more you try to compete with a monopoly, the more you may minimize that monopoly. It's important to understand the origins of different monopolies. People don't know enough history to understand this.
Steem
Steemit has supply and demand. You provide a supply, AKA a post or comment. I can reward you with my demand, my upvote.
Taxes
I hate taxes. I don't want to talk about taxes. I don't want to pay my government to do things that I should do myself. True, numbers are abstract. I love cryptocurrencies as it fights against Soros.