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[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not exactly, it's increasingly disappearing in favor of monopoly.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Competition can't be eternal, otherwise monopoly wouldn't exist.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org -3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn't mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago

It's not about being temporary, production becomes so complicated and wide-reaching that it must become planned and publicly owned.