The Ghost of RubangB on 16 September 2008
I stopped having arguments with free market people after one (a roommate) told me that anti-trust laws got in the free market's way, and a true free market would have a magical invisible hand come destroy the monopoly with a new small innovative company that can do it cheaper and/or better, instead of the monopoly buying it, stealing it, or crushing it. The only invisible hand I know is the one that fists the poor and gives handjobs to the rich. A pure free market is as wacky a fantasy as pure communism. That's why the U.S. is socialist as all hell and wiggles around in the middle.
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