Free market? As in, competition between different enterprises? And what do you think happens when one company “wins” that competition? It will use that power to establish a monopoly (or a cartel with a couple buddy companies). Both “free market” and “private monopoly” are capitalist fenomena, just at different stages of development of industry.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Correct. Patents and copyrights are state granted monopolies that are in direct opposition to free market forces that capitalism thrives on.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Sure, everyone shoudl work for free except you, of course.
Patents only last 15 years. why isn’t the government making insulin.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your affection for patents does not disprove my original statement.
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
as a citizen of a country whose government (-owned company) makes insulin, this reads weird to me
cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Free market? As in, competition between different enterprises? And what do you think happens when one company “wins” that competition? It will use that power to establish a monopoly (or a cartel with a couple buddy companies). Both “free market” and “private monopoly” are capitalist fenomena, just at different stages of development of industry.