Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, vallor wrote:

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:31:05 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
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As for the natural state of the system in a free market, it is not
oligopoly. It is a diverse set of millions and millions of companies.
One company governing all of earth would collapse the same way as big
governments (and I'm thinking world government) collapses due to
inefficient organization.
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The free market is self organizing and decentralised, and that is the
natural state of it, without government creating and helping the
behemoths we have today.

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We should also do away with referees on soccer pitches, because the games
will self organize.

You have never played football without a judge? I've played plento of self-organized football games. Some games self-organize with a judge some without.

Seriously, I have just 2 comments:
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1) The bigotry from "Anonymous" was uncalled for, and
2) "free markets" are not to be desired.  _FAIR_ markets, are.

See the article I sent, that shows why 1 and 2 are wrong.

You can't have a fair market without fair referees...and there's the rub.
_Some_ regulation is necessary.

Incorrect. I've made 100s of thousands if not more without judges and referees. Let me guess... you are not running your own company, right?

For example:  Microsoft was adjudicated to be a monopoly at one point,
the question was if they were using that status unfairly in the market.
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How does that look today?

Microsoft reached its position due to deep links with and favours from the government. Without the government, Microsoft would be a shadow of itself. Just have a look at its income and then you subtract all the government contracts, that's only the first indication.