@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
Post #52283
2025-12-11 11:17 UTC
Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law.
And how do you think laws like these came into existence? Capitalists accumulated power and then used that power to influence the government to protect their business.
You’re so close but for some reason you refuse to accept that business can and does influence the government.
But beyond that, the regulations we’re talking about were anti-monoply regulations. Despite you saying that the Chicago school is anti-monoply, they pushed to defang regulations that combated monopolies. Your justification is that regulations create monopolies, but you provide no reasoning why defanging anti-monoply regulations would reduce monopolies.
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@ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-11 12:16
Blaming capitalism because doing a bad thing led to bad results is like blaming a recipe for being bad when you swap the eggs for cottage cheese. When you let companies make rules, that’s government intervention.