Timeline for Why is there a need to prevent a racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted vendor from discriminating who they sell to?
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 15:50 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | Common sense suggests that 6-year-olds shouldn't buy much of anything. | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 3:45 | comment | added | Aaron | @d-b actually Microsoft faced issues due to anti-monopoly laws, they were using the approach that you appear supportive of e.g. "We shall decide what can operate on our systems" and the US Federal Court ruled against Microsoft. IF Microsoft had won that battle, technology would have stagnated considerably. | |
| Aug 11, 2019 at 2:30 | comment | added | d-b | Of course it would, but it doesn't matter. Microsoft tried this in the 90s and was overrun by the development of technology. How many new big banks have appeared in the last decade or two? Compare that to big tech. Then compare the obstacles to create a new bank and a new tech company. | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 19:03 | comment | added | Stian | @d-b No, I disagree. Cartels and monopolies are natural end points of free reign capitalism. Consider it, for a second. Would not a market participant capable of skewing the market in his/her favor do so? If you laissez faire - odds are that someone is going to find a way to break the status quo. If you believe in free markets, you believe in rational actors. Rational actors would try to skew the market - because for them, a monopoly would be beneficial. The same goes for groups of actors, aka cartels. A true free market needs protection. But I sense that we disagree on this point ;-) | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 17:01 | comment | added | d-b | Cartels and monopolies happens because the government introduces thresholds and other obstacles to enter a market. C.f. all the regulations of the financial sector: you need to be a massive company to be able to handle all these rules which makes it difficult for small companies with discruptive ideas to enter the market. | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 8:30 | history | answered | Stian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |