Palladium : The cure for Independence

[Robert Bushman]

On Palladium - check out this fantastic Socratic
dialog disguised as a FAQ:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:

> It's not illegal to be a monopoly.  If you are a monopoly, however, then
> you must abide by certain rules.

I recently had a long discussion about this with some
far-right banker friends. The general consensus was:
1. It's OK to be a monopoly - in fact, that is
   the dutiful objective of any corporation.
2. It's OK to be anti-competitive - in fact,
   that is a fundamental assumption of the concept
   of "rational-self-interest" in capitalism.
3. It is not OK to be a monopoly, AND to use the
   power a monopoly posesses to advance an anti-
   competitive agenda.


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