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Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform by bombcar on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:24PM (#31773031)
These anti-monopoly laws always end up as “make restrictions preventing new competitors at some cost the big companies can easily handle”.
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Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform by pessimizer on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:42PM (#31773596)
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.
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Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform by Teever on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:53PM (#31773248)
Always? All anti-monopoly laws, ever?
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Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform by diegoholiveira on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:07PM (#31773735)
That’s a hypothesis explored by some authors, like here: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/big-busin...
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Re:Calling for Antitrust Reform by Teever on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:19AM (#31774085)
Libertarian is a word for people who are too bashful to describe themselves as Feudalists.
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