The market isn't free, there's a ton of restrictions and policies that benefit large corporations while making it very difficult for new companies to make any headway against their competition

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remove those restrictions and things get shittier, not more competitive. The only thing that makes smaller companies competitive is either 1, they corner some disruptive market that the big boys are ignoring (this is so rare you likely know all of the big instances of this) or 2, antitrust breaks up the big companies so that a more competitive market emerges.

That's it. Anything else is an edge case of an edge case and not worth bothering with. The top of that list is removing regulations. Regulations are written in blood and acting like they're just red tape in your way is how people die.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah wtf. Regulation is the only reason new businesses can come into the market at all

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Any problem with small business breaking in right now is mostly a function of the fact that our system for anti-trust has completely fallen off. Like the story about Microsoft and Phil Spencer wanting to buy Nintendo or Valve - in a sane world, they wouldn't even consider it because that's a clear case of consolidation that is harmful for consumers.

[–] BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

You've got it backwards. If it wasn't for the government, regulations and anti monopoly laws there wouldn't be any new companies, it'd just be one major Corp for each sector.

They still don't even go far enough tbh.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's what free market means