More startups should take on monopolies

Re:More startups should take on monopolies by AndrewKemendo on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:59PM (#39578537)

I’m actually way more familiar with it than I come across. I was a Mises Institute member briefly, including attending a Ron Paul event they hosted.

I think “Democracy the God that failed” was the final straw where I was like “this is basically advocating for private kinghoods”

If you extrapolate, then you basically get Amazon, United Health, and 8 other companies with their own currencies and mercenary armies and all manner nonsense that winds up basically just looking like a Corporate wasteland as described by Mike Judge

And frankly we’re pretty close -with Apple Cash and Apple hiring city and municipal police to guard stores the transition is effectively complete

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Re:More startups should take on monopolies by nonrandomstring on Sunday March 03, 2024 @04:27AM (#39579640)

Isn't the term people are clutching for "lawlessness"

If anything defines the current epoch it is "post-legal".

For example, massive fines, now in the billions of dollars, pay superficial lip-service to laws, but for mega-corps are simply the cost of doing business.

The irony of course is that giant monopolies exist only because the protection the rule of law bestows allows that. They are _very_ vulnerable. If we interpret "take on monopolies" using their own rules, they'd be hacked off the grid in weeks if not days.

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Re:More startups should take on monopolies by AndrewKemendo on Sunday March 03, 2024 @10:22AM (#39581377)

I think it’s really just garden variety Regulatory Capture that’s now just endemic

The problem is congressman all want to get rich now, and Congress is a path to riches, whereas it was not always so directly the case

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