Competition does not work in a free market.

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by Andrew Grygus

9/16/07 8:48:40 PM

Competition does not work in a free market.

In a free market one entity will eventually gain the ability to crush the very possibility of competition. Witness AT&T in the past and Microsoft today. Monopoly requires opposition and "non-free" controls to return competition to the marketplace.

The same in democracy. A party in power can perpetuate that power by control of the purse strings. Competition cannot be reestablished without opposition - this is more true today than it ever has been.

In the case of the Bush administration "competition" is an absurd concept anyway. It would mean providing an alternate vehicle with which to travel a road that is just plain WRONG! Only opposition makes any sense at all here.

Marlowe, the drivel you're spouting today makes far less sense than even your usual drivel. Perhaps you should request a BIOS upgrade and a re-boot.

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Opposition for its own sake - (marlowe) - (11) - Sept. 16, 2007, 07:08:00 PM EDT

Why are you doing this? - (warmachine) - (1) - Sept. 16, 2007, 08:19:27 PM EDT

Besides which - (jake123) - Sept. 16, 2007, 08:37:34 PM EDT

You throw lots of colorful words around, as usual. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Sept. 16, 2007, 08:43:47 PM EDT

I remember that vote, and I remember the rhetoric. - (marlowe) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2007, 07:40:38 PM EDT

Oh, so brief? Izzat why they STILL aren't defunding his war? -NT - (CRConrad) - Oct. 2, 2007, 02:42:53 AM EDT

Competition does not work in a free market. - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 16, 2007, 08:48:40 PM EDT

Quagmire much? -NT - (Silverlock) - (3) - Sept. 17, 2007, 07:40:43 AM EDT

Not for us. - (pwhysall) - (2) - Sept. 17, 2007, 08:05:33 AM EDT

Don't count your chickens just yet. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Sept. 17, 2007, 11:43:20 PM EDT

There's an election coming... - (pwhysall) - Sept. 18, 2007, 01:10:03 AM EDT

"What exactly is a loyal opposition, anyway?" - (rcareaga) - Sept. 18, 2007, 11:05:34 PM EDT

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You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.

But technology never seems to advance...

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