Bread
Of bread, I mean there was a famine in France, and the common people were riled up about it,
I think it was 'one of the causes of the French Revolution.
"Let them eat cake"
Is a fictional invention I have heard, but it emphasizes how the lower class can react when they have so little, yet the upper class seems to have so much.
Companies
Freedom 'does seem good to me,
And it 'sounds you support checks and balances for 'immediate harm or companies restricting freedom.
But I'm not sure you have checks and balances for preventing companies from growing too powerful for those laws.
Allowing a single individual or company to amass too much wealth for instance,
It seems more ideal to me, to prevent them from amassing enough wealth to easily change laws or influence voters.
. . . 'And get away with it.
While I agree a company store 'can be fair, in practice it can result in 16 tons.
I think many businesses create unfair prices because they want money, and because there being no government regulation, they 'can.
"It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." - Franklin Roosevelt
'Ideally the company would be fair,
'Ideally the workers would just leave, but there are always desperate, poor, uneducated people.
People don't think,
I shall leave and allow my family to starve to death for my principles.
"In Mexico, during the Porfiriato period (late 1800 to early 1900), the "tiendas de raya" (company stores) were a prominent symbol of labor and peasant exploitation. These stores, operated by the owners of haciendas or factories, sold essential items to workers, often at inflated prices and typically paying with vouchers instead of cash. This kept workers in a continuous debt cycle to the hacienda or company, binding them almost like slaves to the land or industrial work without the possibility of escaping poverty."
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Saying that monopolies only exist because of government regulation, doesn't sound right to me.
Though I think government can 'cause monopolies, or prop up monopolies, (With bailout as an example)
. . . The less laws, the less restrictions for a company to act in underhanded ways to acquire full control of their market and competition.
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I 'do agree capitalism 'can be about the creation of new wealth,
But I think unrestricted it will often try to seize that new wealth and much of the old wealth for itself.
. . . Where does that new wealth go?
Often I suspect into new people, and into the company,
By this I mean, yes there is new wealth, and it creates more society,
But that doesn't necessarily mean society is 'richer, just bigger.
And while this can have the 'side effect at times of the people becoming richer,
I think some companies and people have bottomless pits for stomachs.
How rich does one need to be before being satisfied?
And yet. . . There are many rich individuals and companies who are 'not satisfied, who 'continue their unfair prices and wages.
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For the companies it is being soulless husks, they often 'exist to make more money for the faceless shareholders,
CEO doesn't stay in position by moral actions, so much as I made money perhaps.
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It's what pisses people off about some game companies,
Lootboxes and horse armor, bah.
Still at least game companies don't have a hold of my wallet or food.
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And one 'does see game companies fail over time, when they fail to satisfy.
But it isn't always fast,
And people stomachs are not tied to their products.
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England
America was able to expand west though, after we bought Louisiana from the French, no longer had to worry about England edicts not to expand into the natives land, and after we had killed some native powers.
England had that British Empire for a time, I'm doubtful they were economic slouches.
Monopolies
You may have explained why monopolies cannot exist without government regulation.
But it didn't sink in for me,
'Partially because I am not well read on this subject, but still have vague memories of readings and intuitions that keep me doubtful that monopolies cannot easily exist without government regulation.
I 'do think they can come about 'from government regulation, whether intention or bad policy.
Weeds are going to grow regardless,
But one can have more or less weeds than one would have naturally, by their gardening.
Market Regulated by Demand
Hm, a fair point.
Still, I'm not sure that stops companies from effecting demand.
But I am not educated enough to change my current views,
One could argue I could change my view to neutral, but not my style.
I still have past impressions, vague memories, and intuitions that keep me on my current view.
Side Thoughts.
Of food, I am not familiar enough with the subject, to have strong views on whether there would be more food in the world with more or less, or no government regulation.
Hm where's that link to railroads? No not this one.
I 'do agree with you on some points,
And 'do think the government can over regulate, and create excessive barriers of entry at times.
Lot of hoops to jump through, for people trying to start a business or profession.
One leans at times to letting people make their own choices, good or bad,
If they want to hire a doctor that receives 0/10 reviews, and is a quack, their choice some argue.
Hm, earlier when talking of lead in food or baby toys,
I meant I would have government not allow the sale of such,
Not that I would have government allow people to buy leaded food or baby toys.
Just for myself if I ever forget about particulars of this conversation, as I worry my statement was vague, and allows interpretation that I would be fine with government just having companies say their toys and food is leaded.