• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    6 months ago

    That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

    You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

    And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

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      5 months ago

      That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

      You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

      Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was “under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.”, which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example’s idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I’m not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn’t making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I’m not really sure where the issue lies.


      And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

      Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.