• Dojan@lemmy.world
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        If you just leave the criminals alone and let them do as they please they’ll regulate themselves. A criminal justice system is just unnecessary and expensive administrative overhead. It stifles the free market.

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          exactly. the only reason im robbed for so much is because of the cost the criminals incur because of the justice system. If we let the free market handle it the cost of being robbed will drop to the what the market will bear. Criminals will compete to rob you of less.

          • PigsInClover@lemmy.world
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            This is why it’s important that we continue to give tax breaks to the criminals and subsidize their operations for specific projects that would help everyone.

            But again, we must make sure to not cause any undue burden on the criminals by making those funds conditional, or regulating how the projects are carried out. Otherwise they will be forced to rob us further, and who could blame them?

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      “Why does that room smell like rotting corpses?”

      “No clue, let’s promise to be friends forever by agreeing to never go into or ask about that room ever again!”

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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      Unlikely since the FTC keeps letting them merge.

      And it’s not just tech. Pretty much everything you buy is from a brand that’s owned by one of a handful of companies.

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        I mean that’s not really true. The new FTC chair literally got the position by writing a paper on why Amazon should be broken up, and has raised numerous cases to stop recent M&A activity. One Meta/FB acquisition of a VR company, the Microsoft Blizzard/Activision buyout, among others. They’ve been shut down a lot by the courts.

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      As unintuitive as it may seem, the price charged to customers has little to do with the costs of providing the service.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    This is more shocking than police investigating themselves and finding nothing wrong.