Also the classic: "My enterprise is falling apart, please give me public funds so I can continue to rip people off (don't worry, I'll still claim it's all pure market forces at work)"
that's right, privatize the profits and socialize the losses. That's just smart business.
Literally. Anyone trying to do it different is highly likely to fail. Even the smaller businesses will take tax breaks and rely on government funding.
As with all ideas in theory, capitalism doesn’t sound terrible. But when the competition is done improving and they’ve got their audience/loyalists, it’s a race to the bottom and the only “losers” are the ones who step just a bit too far… and then they try it again in a few years and it works. Just look at micro transactions
The "theory" makes a lot of very favorable assumptions. The real theory (Marx) reveals the real usefulness/shortcomings of the capitalist mode of production, and we are way past it's usefulness.
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