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Re:Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B by scarface74 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:59PM (#22400474)
So now we are suppose to discourage companies from getting big? Everytine a company gets big do we really want the government to step in? Do your trust your government? Wouid you trust your government if it was the “other” party?

It amazes me that people on HN willingly want to give up their agency to the government.

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Re:Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B by Ozzie_osman on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:57PM (#22400718)
Huh? Where did anyone say anything about companies getting big? At this case you're just making strawman arguments.

What I (and I think others) are against is anti-competitive behavior. I don't trust the government a whole lot (even my party) but I trust it more than I would a company behaving monopolistically.

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Re:Intuit to buy Credit Karma for $7B by scarface74 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:24PM (#22401135)
By HN standards, Apple (with a 40% market share) and Amazon (10% of all retail sales) is a monopoly.

The difference is that the government has the power of law to compel me to do something. A company doesn’t. Given that choice, a government with less power is better.

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