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Man the 'it's really bad government is enforcing antitrust laws' crowd sure is pushing this hard on HN this week. You understand all of the original thought on capitalism explained how it was essential the government keep this type of control on markets in order for capitalism to work, right?

If your only business model is to get bought out by a larger company capitalism SHOULD world to reduce the number of startups.

Also, the incumbents just buying everyone up also = incumbents having all the power, and is also a very bad thing. Hence the creation of antitrust laws, and the concept of it being baked into foundational capitalist thought.




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