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The extent of the free market economy
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Surely the state's role in the maintenance of market share should be lessened. Let the free market regulate itself (according to the principles of supply and demand).
For example, if Tesco possessed 35% of the supermarket 'market', should the government intervene? No, it would be wrong to so do.
For example, if Tesco possessed 35% of the supermarket 'market', should the government intervene? No, it would be wrong to so do.
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2. The government would, via its' quango, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, intervene.
3. Why is there only *one* Monopolies Commission?
LMAO.
Do you not see the irony?
Ye gods....
Gee, even I got that one...
Whatever...:rolleyes:
No all the means of production, distribution and exchange should be nationalised and placed under the democratic control of the workers so that all the wealth created goes to everyone and not just the tiny few who own everything!
People should understand that all the wealth of the world comes from the labour power of the working class and nowhere else! It is the worlds workers who produce all the wealth but that wealth is taken from them in the form of rent, interest and profit by the capitalists! Why shoud a few elite capitalists own the majority of the worlds wealth!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk
Let's put this simply for you, see if you understand.
If a company had too large a market share, they control prices. They control the distribution of the goods they sell, so other companies cannot penetrate the market. Too much control by one company restricts the market, rather than freeing it and this is not in the consumer's interests.
You just need to look at the prices farmers are paid for their goods to see that the four supermarkets chains already have too great a hold...
And after the world's economy has collapsed, we can all live a pitiful and meagre existence just like Steelgate.