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Remember when HP bought palm and them proceeded to lay off the entire palm staff and kill all the palm products?

The market works best with competion. It's better for the workers, the customers, society and innovation in general.

A giant monopoly buying potential competitors is bad for everyone other than owners of that giant monopoly.

Yep, and because HP did that, we now have no mobile smartphones. If only the government would have prevented that!!

Caplan said it best. The market is great at doing good things that sound bad. The government is great at doing bad things that sound good.

Imagine a world in which Internet Explorer is the only browser around. That's what would happen without government intervention.

Regulations are literally the only thing slowing down the corporate dystopian future.

The idea that government regulation created chrome is so bizarre I simply have to discard your comment out of hand