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Re:Can Capitalism Be Redeemed? by WalterBright on Monday July 04, 2016 @11:36PM (#12034266)
You can never have a perfect free market, nothing that humans craft is ever perfect. But you can get pretty close. As I've posted here before, the software development industry is fairly close to a free market.

Besides, just because we cannot reach perfection is not justification to run the other way. The government is run by people, and people are subject to imperfection, incompetence, and corruption. The more power added to that means the more temptation there is to use that power for personal agendas.

Remember that county clerk who was using her government power to deny marriage licenses to gay couples?

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Re:Can Capitalism Be Redeemed? by AstralStorm on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:54AM (#12034626)
Software development close to free market?

Since when you have become a venture capitalist?

Only a select few win big and often their products are way overvalued. The road to billion valuation is littered with dead startups doing almost the same thing.

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Re:Can Capitalism Be Redeemed? by WalterBright on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @04:20AM (#12035064)
How is that not part of the free market? There are other paths to funding than VCs. None of my businesses got a dollar from VCs.
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