Imagine if companies really had to compete to offer the best products like capitalist apologists preach?
Oh god no. This is still monopoly. Every company that reaches significantly lower market rate - say 4% - should be forcibly split or wound down (IIRC correctly at 5% market rate it becomes more profitable to buy the competition out so you don’t have to compete with them).
It’d be rad if we could do away with the idea of selling companies to companies. If a corporation is a person, it shouldn’t be legal.
If your company exceeds >35% market share of an industry, the state should be given an option to take control of that company at a set price.
I think forcing interoperability between similar services would help with this. No more company-specific printer ink. No more “exclusive” chat services.
If a service is bad you can just change it without having to change who still use it/what uses it
Capitalism excels at breeding innovation. Not in like, useful technology or anything, but in constructing labyrinthine bureaucratic structures to bypass regulations.
Isn’t that the truth?
We could do it the ethical way, but let’s spend twice as much effort trying to cheat.
You can’t have that percentage be higher than 20%, & have it work right.
50% & you’ve already reduced that market-segment to a 2-horse race or monopoly.
You have to prevent that, XOR you’re creating a national-dependency on “too big to fail” corporation, which is certain, sooner or later, to become a national footgun.
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Once you hit 50% of market share, all owners get a thank you card and pizza party. It’s then nationalized.
forcing them to open source everything would go a long way
Na, they must open source all the platforms they use. Not own, use. Outsourced your hr to Workday? Well now workday have to open source or you need to cancel your contract.
“We want to help you make smart purchasing choices with your money! Now here are all the alternate companies that we own, have a stake in or have a trade agreement with!”
How about any firm that hits a 15% share of any significant mature market gets declared the winner and is abolished.
Why would it be abolished?
You’d have to change services commonly
It should not happen often. If it does, something’s wrong with your system of regulation.
How would abolishing work? Just delete the company and fuck the clients?
I, too, hate monopolies and centralization, but that just seems inconvenient
Like, Valve’s steam has reached past 15%, would everyone lose access to the games?
In a situation where there’s a natural monopoly, perhaps it should be nationalized.
Companies already have to do this when they break the law. They write a stupid hidden page where the text is 3 pixels high. Doesn’t work.
nah, I’m talking about a fixed banner on top 0 on every page taking to a competitors list they do not control :)
What economic system is OP an apologist for?
