Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 12:21:52 +0200, D wrote:
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On Sat, 6 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 11:37:56 +0200, D wrote:
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2024, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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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.

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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.
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Incorrect. Read this [useless article].

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Maybe stop paying attention to content-free polemicists, and start paying
attention to the reality around you.
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Consider how long your economy would last if currency counterfeiters were
allowed to proliferate unchecked, just for example.
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Ahh... so you did not read? Then we can stop. I could cut n' paste it here, but since you admit defeat by not reading and responding, I consider this argumetn won! =)