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"All companies are greedy so all choices are pointless" is a pretty nihilistic perspective. Do you really think every company engages in all the same practices that are identically detrimental to the commons? I'm almost as far from a fan of capitalism as you can get and even I don't think that.

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You somehow believe that having only one corporation will yield better results for the society, instead of many companies competing in a free market? (Where you can also compete if you think your better)

I'm having trouble seeing how you got from my post to this question, so I'm really not sure how to answer it.

You said you are far from being fan of capitalism. Free market means as many companies as needed. The opposite is one company only controlling everything, most commonly irl in form of communism.

The opposite of a vacuum is the center of a black hole, and yet we manage to live in neither.

At any rate a deeper conversation about this would go pretty far off topic, so I'm going to leave your strawmen and conflation of several different ideas and axes into one binary choice alone.

Yeah that’s why i said believe in. Whether you tend to believe if fewer is better, or more is better. To me it seemed like you belong to the former, and thats why i made a specific question which you are actively avoiding answering.

His point is rather that given competition allows certain for profit enterprises to do more right than others hence giving us choice we better make use of to let/get the greedy fringe (or majority of them) out.

I have no problem with that. My response was in his statement that he does not believe in free markets.

Not a he or him, thanks.

Sure thing. You are just as welcome.

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