• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      It will. It really does regulate itself, no /s needed.

      Except that happens via some businesses going bankrupt and some adjusting.

      And either it’s free enough for monopolies to crash, or regulated enough for monopolies to be killed, or both.

      If it’s neither, then you have today’s tech industry.

      EDIT: And here the fears are that big companies will go down with their shareholders whining and their political cronies suffering and so on. Whether you want free market or literal socialism, the main problem is in separating private narrow interests from the state machine.

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      2 hours ago

      Well China did subsidize that industry massively, to a point were their domestic market is flooded with very low margins. So the market is already very distorted. But I find it hard to hate on that because flooding the market with electric vehicles and solar panels is better than anything economists are coming up with.