PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoA fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your pagemessage-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareA fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your pagePiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
Imagine if companies really had to compete to offer the best products like capitalist apologists preach?
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoHow about any firm that hits a 15% share of any significant mature market gets declared the winner and is abolished.
minus-squareowsei@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoWhy would it be abolished? You’d have to change services commonly
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoIt should not happen often. If it does, something’s wrong with your system of regulation.
minus-squareowsei@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoHow 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?
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoIn a situation where there’s a natural monopoly, perhaps it should be nationalized.
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.