Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform
by jszymborski on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:13PM
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An oligopoly, then? A cartel?
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These anti-monopoly laws always end up as “make restrictions preventing new competitors at some cost the big companies can easily handle”.
Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform
by pessimizer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:42PM
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Yes, that's why the biggest companies are constantly lobbying to pass antitrust legislation. Because of the extensive history of small upstart competitors being destroyed in antitrust cases.
Always? All anti-monopoly laws, ever?
Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform
by diegoholiveira on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:07PM
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That’s a hypothesis explored by some authors, like here: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/big-busin...