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Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Mon, 1 May 2000 20:56:13 -0400 |
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Bill Bartlett wrote:
The writer points out that capitalism, which is predicated on and
justified by free competition, inevitably trends toward increased
monopoly, simply by the development of increasingly sophisticated
machinery of production.
Mumpsimus prior
This is nonsense.
There are two types of monopoly; coercive and natural. Natural is
a desired variety as the best product is produced at the best
price -- such has never existed. A coercive monopoly requires the
Government to enforce.
alister air wrote:
Sorry - you're wrong. There's a basic trend in capitalism in that it
necessarily tends towards monopoly.
Religious chantings do nothing to counter reality.
alister air wrote:
Software is an easy way to see this - big fish eat small fish, or
the small fish survive off the leavings of bigger ones. Windows
was never popular because it was good.
There are numerous operating systems which compete heartily
with Windows ... nothing is to prevent a BETTER mousetrap from
supplanting the entire industry. You too confuse words, concepts
and things.
alister air wrote:
We in fact have a monopoly by Microsoft. If it's "natural" (by your
terms)
then we clearly do not have the best product at the best price (and in
fact, a "natural" monopoly would *never* assure us of either). If it's
"coercive" (which I'd argue it is) then the government certainly never
enforced it. The precious "free market" was the coercive agent in
this case.
You have no understanding of reality.
Microsoft is NOT a monopoly in either the operating system (Mac, OS2,
Linux, Unix, etc) .... the browser market (Netscape, Opera, etc) ... the
Word Processing/Spreadsheet market (WordPerfect, AmiPro,
QuattroPro, etc.)
alister air wrote:
It's clear enough that you don't understand economic theory, but the least
you could do is have read the relevant documentation before shooting your
mouth off.
This too is nonsense.
Keynes was a fool and has been proven as such thousands of times over.
Mumpsimus
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