Against all odds.
Yup, when the Bush administration got in, they quickly allowed Microsoft to pretty much write the terms of punishment for their abusive monopoly conviction, terms under which even Microsoft officals admitted they had more control over the PC industry than they had before their conviction.
And those "simple rules of capitalism" should be stated "simplistic rules of capitalism". They are sufficiently simplistic they cannot work for long without ouside correction. Left alone capitalism results in a very few who control all the capital, a large pool of desparate peasants, and nothing in between. The monarchial system in Europe was pure capitalism.
Capitalism was corrected in Europe by destroying the monarchy. It was corrected in 19th century America by taxes and regulation, and it'll have to be corrected again in the 21st century.
Capitalism is an important segment of our society, but it must be balanced by other segments, just as our government was organized with three branches and two parties all to balance each other. Right now both capitalism and our government are out of balance and in need of corrective action.
