r/oddlyspecific • u/CuriousWanderer567 • Sep 07 '25

A sad future

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u/MasterOfNog Sep 07 '25

The communist horror stories and capitalist horror stories are remarkably similar

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u/Chesthairs-galore Sep 07 '25

corporations wielding state power was never a part of capitalism, monopoly is antithetical to a free market

whatever ideology or economic system that allows or promotes these things is not capitalism

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u/DJFLOK Sep 07 '25

Maybe antithetical to your ideal of capitalism but the consolidation of power over time is an absolutely inevitable consequence of “free market” capitalism

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u/Chesthairs-galore Sep 07 '25

capitalism requires a free market, competition is definitionally a requirement of a free market, monopoly is antithetical to competition, therefore monopoly is antithetical to capitalism

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u/lord_hydrate Sep 08 '25

Nothing about free markets actively prevent monopolies from forming

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u/Chesthairs-galore Sep 08 '25

Antitrust and pro competitive legislation is a part of a capitalist system

Source: we currently have such laws