• @NateNate60
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      916 hours ago

      The free market doesn’t stay free for very long without Government intervention because none of the players in said market want to participate in a free market. They want to gain control of everything and milk it for every dollar of surplus.

      • HobbitFoot
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        015 hours ago

        In this case, there are markets that will naturally push towards a monopoly.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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          124 minutes ago

          This wasn’t a natural push to a monopoly though. Visa used their size and leverage to force end users to use their debit network and squeeze out the competition. They’d charge higher fees on companies who didn’t use their services. So I disagree, this isn’t a natural monopoly.