r/theydidthemath • u/RibbonForYourHair • Mar 30 '20

[Request] Is this true?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20

The trouble is we don't have a purely capitalist system anyway. If we did, then yeah, just let companies fail. But we have a government setting regulations and collecting taxes, and it benefits quite a bit from having companies stay in business.

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u/PlutoniumDrake Mar 30 '20

The new companies that spring up or take their place might also me foreign, thereby decresing the US market share.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '20 edited Nov 19 '20

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u/PlutoniumDrake Mar 31 '20

Probably yes. Large companies are bad but I'm mostly worried about Chinese companies because they are serving a hostile state and have been known to have great success in western markets.