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0 pointsduaneb12y ago0 comments

> They are just exploiting rules made by humans.

This is capitalism. If you want a free market, you must live with unethical corporations.

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dantheman12y ago· 3 in thread

Free markets and patents are incompatible.

gress12y ago

True, but in a real free market monopolies and cartels quickly produce the same effect.

In a real free market the cartels would be undercut by competitors not fixing their prices.

You mean in a real-life market.

duanebOP12y ago

Sure, but a free market is utopian. Nobody wants to live in a world where the free exchange of money takes highest precedence.

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