Re: My Dinner With Marc Andreessen

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 12:31:05 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote in
<7896d979-7348-9c9c-d5a1-db664baa32fc@example.net>:

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.
 
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.

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

Seriously, I have just 2 comments:

1) The bigotry from "Anonymous" was uncalled for, and
2) "free markets" are not to be desired.  _FAIR_ markets, are.

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

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.

How does that look today?

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