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Re:Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox by frogpelt on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @11:42AM (#3919625)
Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse.

The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems (I say most because I think some regulation is necessary and good). But it requires patience to let the market work.

Re:Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox by mirkules on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:18PM (#3919840)
Not so fast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Monopoly

The free market left to itself will eventually converge into a monopoly.

Re:Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox by kika on Thursday May 03, 2012 @01:13PM (#3924719)
What's true for railways or airlines is not always true for applications and web services. The barriers in the latter markets are much, much lower.
Re:Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox by mistermann on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @01:59PM (#3920338)
> The free market left to itself will sometimes converge into a monopoly.
Re:Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox by batista on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @12:40PM (#3919955)
>Each of the things you mentioned were instances in which the government interfered with the open market and made things worse.

No, all the things that I mention are instances of actual markets. Were is this free market? If it's possible, why it hasn't been seen anywhere on earth?

>The free market left to itself would fix most of it's own problems

I mean, to reason about what the free market will do IF it exists has no value.

The free market, even if it was imposed by some power for one second, would have to be forcibly sustained by human agents --namely corporations, consumers, workers and the government. Nothing tells us that it would, in fact history teaches us otherwise.

One might as well say: "If everybody always was pro peace and love, and never did anything bad, we would have world peace and love".

Of course, but the whole point is in how to achieve that. So, to say "the free market would fix most of it's own problems" has zero value, if the #1 problem is how to create and sustain a free market itself.