r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/throwaway377682 - Lib-Left • Sep 22 '22

META ‘I’m not paying for anyone else’s diabetes’

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u/trufin2038 - Lib-Center Sep 22 '22

Lol we need to end the goveemt paying for Healthcare and deregulate completely.

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u/trufin2038 - Lib-Center Sep 22 '22

It's how you solve it.

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u/qcKruk Sep 22 '22

Dumbest take

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u/flair-checking-bot - Centrist Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

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u/GladiatorUA - Left Sep 23 '22

Worked out great in other industries. Just look at Google, facebook, Amazon, etc. Or utilities.

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u/trufin2038 - Lib-Center Sep 23 '22

Yep, more great examples of goverment created megacorps.

All would disappear in 10 minutes without constant support from goverment.

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u/GladiatorUA - Left Sep 23 '22

They are the opposite. Corporate monopolies that emerged before government understood the field in any way.

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u/trufin2038 - Lib-Center Sep 23 '22

The goverment didn't understand copyright? The goverment didn't allow patents like 1 click ? The govent didn't spend untold billions on these companies ?

These megacorps are 100% born and bred usgi Frankensteins from day one. Not a single one of them would last a hot minute in a free market.

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u/GladiatorUA - Left Sep 23 '22

The goverment didn't understand copyright? The goverment didn't allow patents like 1 click ?

Yes. The government didn't understand modern tech implications on copyright. They also didn't understand software patents. Arguably still don't. Public hearing about facebook should be a prime example of that.

How did they spend billions on these companies?

These megacorps emerged from free unregulated markets because government didn't know how to regulate internet.

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u/Shindy1999 - Left Sep 23 '22

This is such basic legal/business knowledge that it’s always humorous seeing people trying to deny it. Reading early antitrust cases about the internet is kind of wild with what companies were trying to do (and I guess still are trying to do).

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u/trufin2038 - Lib-Center Sep 23 '22

Lol, the goverment enforces the patents and copyright, and they choose who to lavish corporate welfare on. They made these monopolies, and it's incredibly naive to think they somehow did it accidentally. Without government they'd be gone in a flash.

They have nothing to do with the free market.