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Originally Posted by Hypatia Callisto  No, it's not. There is no really free market that favours individuals. The laws are set up to favour the corporations. |
The free market is simply the exchange of goods/services where the individual decides on their own how to spend their money on said goods/services, and where the prices get ultimately shaped by decisions of these individuals. In short, "stuff costs what the market can bear".
Can you please explain my how the games (or software market in general) is not free market under these conditions, in your eyes?
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Collectivism by any other name, is not a free market.
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But there's no collectivism here. Or if there is, i'm really interested where you see it.
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We should have had a constitutional amendment from the start limiting corporations (monopolies).
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This, ironically enough, means there's government regulations to the shape of the market. I.e. something free market ain't.
Corporations and monopolies are two very different things btw. Just mentioning it because the way you write it makes me wonder. The monopoly can be a pretty natural outcome of succesful elimination of competition (something that's also part of free market) and that goal isn't exclusive to corporations, if the supply side is handled by individuals instead then these individuals strive to achieve it as well. Meanwhile, multitude of corporations can (and typically do) exist and operate on the same market.
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We had government subsidization of corporations in the 19th century, which inhibited the flow of goods from England and other countries. There was no free market, no free competition. American manufacturers had the American market pretty much all to themselves, wth laws that favored them to the wealth of American natural resources.
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I don't think that answers my question, really -- a corporation is still merely basic unit of organization. That example of yours is of favouritism given
some of such individuals over others. If this kind of favouritism wasn't given, the corporations in general would still exist just the same.