>>anonymous 4 hours ago
For all you simps who can't understand the economic dynamics at play here let me break it down for you: Small Business and Free Market Capitalism are not synonymous. In this particular case, Free Market Capitalism is killing small businesses and independent venues. A huge corporation with vast resources (the Goliath in a a David...<<
LOLOLOL basic economic fails. Corporations literally wouldn't exist in a free market economy. It's a tax status and the state apparatus wouldn't levy taxes on business transactions (directly, at least). Corporations are literally a state creation. Instead, businesses would have to spend most of their time profit-seeking instead of splitting it with rent-seeking. There's no predicting that, so saying "small businesses can't exist in a laissez faire economy" is mostly unknowable/Hollywood dystopia nonsense, unless you have secret information about market mechanisms every economist hasn't noticed. Genius! Let's hear more from you.
>>anonymous 4 hours ago For all you simps who can't understand the economic dynamics at play here let me break it down for you: Small Business and Free Market Capitalism are not synonymous. In this particular case, Free Market Capitalism is killing small businesses and independent venues. A huge corporation with vast resources (the Goliath in a a David...<< LOLOLOL basic economic fails. Corporations literally wouldn't exist in a free market economy. It's a tax status and the state apparatus wouldn't levy taxes on business transactions (directly, at least). Corporations are literally a state creation. Instead, businesses would have to spend most of their time profit-seeking instead of splitting it with rent-seeking. There's no predicting that, so saying "small businesses can't exist in a laissez faire economy" is mostly unknowable/Hollywood dystopia nonsense, unless you have secret information about market mechanisms every economist hasn't noticed. Genius! Let's hear more from you.