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I don't want communism, I want a functioning free market with socialist safety net policies and for strong anti-trust/monopoly regulations.

Mega corporations pervert free markets and democracy, and we have a huge number of mega corporations At this point.

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That's not the point of my response. It is tiresome, and detracts from meaningful discourse to have the same tired anti-capitalism meme tacked onto everything. It didn't even make sense in the post I was responding to - which is entirely my point.

It's relevant because the feedback mechanism for countering all of this is "theoretically, the firm gets outcompeted by other actors who are not doing the bad things."

I'm pointing out that, due to how strongly capitalism rewards cash flow and previously accumulated capital, that feedback/correcting mechanism is often _extremely slow_.

That feels relevant to me.

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