Dnia środa, 7 października 2015 09:53:09 Razer pisze: > > Ah, so the assumption is: "had there been no regulation, we would not get > > monopolies"? > > > > Am I getting that right? > > Without regulation you OWN your OWN 'monopoly' in whatever you > accumulate and so does everyone else. > > The Hunts cornered the silver market in a REGULATED market, which, for > economic reasons better left to others to explain, cause the price of > silver to decline dramatically and then stabilize and stay at that level > for years . > > In a free market they'd just be sitting on a bunch of silver they > couldn't sell and anyone else with silver would go on trading with > others on a more equilateral basis.
What if they *owned* all silver? For instance, by buying out all competition? > Of course I'm making the assumption that really free markets can only > exist in fully decentralized societies that would eschew centralized > trading AND the middlemen necessary for it's operation. Can we assume that there was a time in the history of humankind (very, very early on) when this was the case? Or is that assumption to strong? -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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