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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by shmerl on Sunday April 23, 2017 @04:32PM (#14180308)
> But what guarantees this freedom?

That's up to the society which wants to have a free market. For instance, anti-trust laws is one way of doing it.

> The government is supposed to step in to block monopolies from controlling the market, but that implies that the government is intervening in the market.

Someone should to step in here, whether it's government or not, is another question. But clearly, if market has no way of preventing a monopoly, it's not really free.

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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by mannykannot on Sunday April 23, 2017 @06:35PM (#14180815)
> Someone should to step in here, whether it's government or not, is another question.

Actually, it is the central question, because without a feasible answer all you have is a fine-sounding principle that is utterly infeasible.

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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by shmerl on Sunday April 23, 2017 @06:45PM (#14180859)
It's the same question of how society is regulating things. It's quite a broad subject, but we were talking about the principle here.
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