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Deregulation spurs competition which your centralized corporations hate and actually fight in favor for all the time. The chief lobbies for Obamacare was healthcare monopolies like Blue Cross.

Not to mention they don’t have the threat of jail, military, police, and other coercion to use against you.

Truth is the two work hand in hand. Big corporation loves big government

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That is not how commodity production works. The evolution of the commodity form has been one of competing commodity producers, where one will always lose out and have to sell their wage labor to the winning commodity producer and the existing commodity producers absorb the labor power, means of production, and continue expanding in a way which someone starting from 0 can not overwhelm. This is the economy of scale. You can cherry pick "disruptive" technologies all you want, but if you look at who holds most of the wealth in the world (a handful of billionaires), and their control over various industries, what I'm saying becomes extremely apparent.

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