Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 11:37:56 +0200, D wrote:

On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 12:42:22 +0200, D wrote:
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I find it tragic that something like that should be necessary for
people to lift a finger when it comes to protecting markets.

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Almost as though free markets cannot remain free without regulators to
keep them free.
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Of course they can.

No they can’t. Left to themselves, they fall prey to anticompetitive
practices, deceptive advertising, price-fixing, and just plain fraud.
That’s why we need laws, and a Government to enforce them. Freedom
requires order; anarchy is not freedom.