Should we eliminate anti-monopoly laws?

[superisis]

ehh. where did that rant come from?

ARe you speaking in genera or referring to specific posts or posters?

 

[Masquerouge]

A monopoly would be able to provide the people with cheaper goods.

yeah, right. Why would they sell their good at cheap prices when they have no competition ?

 

[Mise]

I will give a point for the person that get's the real point behind the thread.

You're bored? You enjoy winding people up? You're Bill Gates? There is no point? You want to make a thread with enough serious content that it doesn't get shut? You want right wingers to prove it to themselves that government intervention is necessary and desirable, and where it is as such, it shouldn't be shunned as communist nonsense? I'm still going with my first response though.

As for the question, power in the hands of the few leads to tyranny. So no, we shouldn't eliminate anti-monopoly laws.

 

[Yom]

You're bored? You enjoy winding people up? You're Bill Gates? There is no point? You want to make a thread with enough serious content that it doesn't get shut? You want right wingers to prove it to themselves that government intervention is necessary and desirable, and where it is as such, it shouldn't be shunned as communist nonsense? I'm still going with my first response though.

As for the question, power in the hands of the few leads to tyranny. So no, we shouldn't eliminate anti-monopoly laws.

You're close with that last one.

 

[MarineCorps]

Speaking from experince. AOl is still very sucky.

Take AOL as an example. Several years ago it lost billions of dollars because its revenue source (the internet users of America) was undermined by other ISPs who provided better service at a cheaper cost. As a result, AOL finally had to update its crappy software, install virus protection, make high speed internet available, improve its e-mail, etc. You've seen all the ads... they probably spent billions working on and advertising the fact that they changed for the better.

AOL 4 broadband is a Bring your own broadband thing. And the software is still crappy.

 

[Hundegesicht]

Yeah, but not as crappy as it would be!

(Stop undermining my hypothetical examples, damnit! )