In my opinion, there are never enough deodorant brands. If a new entrant wants to make a new product, it will succeed or fail. It may compete on price or quality, it may drive out another brand, it may expand the market for deodorant by targeting a type of skin sensitivity that wasn't targeted before, it may do any number of things.
But there will never be enough deodorants. There can always be room for one more, and to prevent an individual for trying to make another is the moment we go on the path to Soviet Russia.
Look at the impact near free college, the GI bill had on tech. People all over the place started shit.
It can and needs to happen again.
That perfect deodorant is denied us because the person who could produce it is extremely likely to be trapped econonically.
What you are getting is endless variations of the same shit from competing board rooms.
What is worth what to you?
Strong words. I'm somewhere in the middle. i'm not offering to send anybody to any Gulag. But taxing some useless products ? or structuring market competition towards real benefits and not bullshit ? sure.
This is a false dichotomy, and the happiest nations on earth have a mix of market regulation and individual freedom.
And, that's an odd dig at life in Soviet Russia. It certainly was not the worst way of life -- I've known quite a few people living in all parts of the world who grew up in the Soviet system and longed for it, wishing for a return to that way of life while knowing it'd never happen.
There aren't only two options - the free market, or soviet russia. there are many more.