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Re:Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during ... by nicoburns on Sunday March 08, 2020 @02:07PM (#22519507)
Essentially much stronger anti-trust laws which break up large institutions, and distribute large concentrations of wealth. It's the only way to spread power.
Re:Airlines flying empty planes to keep flight slots during ... by sova on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:33AM (#22526193)
Thanks for your reply! this is a very interesting dialogue about Wealth Concentration and Ability to Make Economic Moves. Recall Standard Oil, and how anti-trust laws were passed to try and break up this monopoly, but it was many decades too late as the damage had been thoroughly done -- wiring for oil oligarchy was set in place and could not be untangled. In these cases, is there a more elegant solution than the post-fact "since we cannot create competition, naturally or artificially, split your winnings with the government." ?

Destroying concentrations of wealth, but keeping individual humans responsible for wealth echoes the faulty assumptions of communism; if we dilute economic power too greatly by reducing concentration too much, we may be able to allocate excess funds to the creation of new competition in the domain (government-funded anti-monopols), but that simply deletes profit and deletes the profit-incentive of new industry.

"Power always comes from some abstract entity that everyone can talk about, but no one can point to."

I find a huge chasm in understanding between wealth concentrated on individual humans who have their own motivations, and concentrations of wealth in corporations or distributed decision making entities. Which are we opposed to?