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Nov 13 2014 09:32pm
Very often the fear of monopolization promotes government intervention on a free market.
The reason this is counterintuitive, is that a monopoly couldn't exist without barriers, or "barriers to entry" into a market.
Therefore, the very act of preventing monopolistic behaviors through regulation actually creates more monopoly.

The idea to impose more regulation on buisness with the stated outcome of preventing monopoly seems to just give big buisness a better disguise.

This post was edited by MaliceMizer on Nov 13 2014 09:33pm
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Nov 13 2014 09:34pm
Put this garbage analysis in general chat, or at least post some meaningful insight.

A monopoly couldn't exist without barriers to entry? This is simply false. There have been more than a few example of outright monopolies existing where there were no barriers to entry. There are other factors contributing to monopolization than equal opportunity.
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Nov 13 2014 09:40pm
regulations are not the only barriers to entry

not even close
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Nov 13 2014 09:43pm
Are monopolies always bad?
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Nov 13 2014 09:43pm
Quote (Voyaging @ 13 Nov 2014 22:34)
Put this garbage analysis in general chat, or at least post some meaningful insight.

A monopoly couldn't exist without barriers to entry? This is simply false. There have been more than a few example of outright monopolies existing where there were no barriers to entry. There are other factors contributing to monopolization than equal opportunity.

I'm attempting to begin a discussion, your elitist haste to attack is surely less insightful than my broad assertion.
How is that simply false?
What are the other factors?
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Nov 13 2014 09:43pm
Quote (duffman316 @ 13 Nov 2014 22:40)
regulations are not the only barriers to entry

not even close


I didn't say they were the only barrier to entry, but they are a form of barrier to entry.
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Nov 13 2014 09:57pm
Exactly, because in a free market, I would just drop a nuke on my competitor. Problem solved. "Freedom" fuck yeah.

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#8
Nov 13 2014 10:20pm
People are actually implying monopoly is a problem in 2014?

Schumpeter noted over half a century ago, "[Monopolistic] competition of the kind we now have in mind acts not only when in being but also when it is merely an ever-present threat. It disciplines before it attacks. The businessman feels himself to be in a competitive situation even if he is alone in his field or if, though not alone, he holds a position such that investigating government experts fail to see any effective competition between him and any other firms in the same or a neighboring field and in consequence concludes that his talk, under examination, about his competitive sorrows is all make-believe."

The simplification of market behavior by the leftists in this thread is both eye-opening and hilarious. They truly know nothing.
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Nov 13 2014 10:45pm
Quote (MaliceMizer @ Nov 13 2014 10:43pm)
I didn't say they were the only barrier to entry, but they are a form of barrier to entry.


Ehh, you explicitly said exactly that in your title. "In A Free Market, A Monoply Couldn't Exist"

Sorry for being a dick, but your post history shows a complete lack of any actual desire for good discussion.
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#10
Nov 13 2014 11:24pm
There is a monopoly in government. OP is wrong. I win the internet.
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