Re:Why Super-Fast Internet Is Coming Super Slowly
by arg01 on Monday February 24, 2014 @08:36PM
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But of course no one advocates capitalism as an actual philosophical goal, they advocate that it's the best way to distribute our limited resources to get the most out of them. So if you accept the existence of natural monopolies it's hard to defend that the inefficiencies of regulating a monopoly to better capture externalities aren't less than the inefficiencies of personal profit maximizing behavior by the private entity with the monopoly.
If you look throughout just American history you can various examples of this. Big, strong companies that eventually fade away to disappear because of failure, lack of vision, or whatever other decisions that held the company back.
It's just that there is very few examples of a true free market, except for maybe on a local level, so that we'll likely never know for sure.