Originally Posted by
merlinextraligh
The point is that abusing market power is the opposite of free market capitalism. Rent seeking by monopolies is anathema to capitalism. By definition Monopolists are not capitalists. They want to use their market power to avoid the workings of capitalism and free markets
The answer to abusive monopolies is enforcement of antitrust laws, not the elimination of free markets.
So the point would be better made “Damn Monopolists” not “Damn Capitalists”
The point is...if you're going to be strictly and semantically accurate--these 'free markets' things you're speaking of
never have and
never will exist. Strictly speaking. The way the function now, IRL, is how they
always have--and probably always will.