Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Hmm, I may have misunderstood you there.

Those who think regulation keeps the small ones down, what about the anti-monopole regulations?
What kind of regulation allowed GameStop to eat up the smaller games shops?
What regulation allowed Intel to more or less ban AMD from some big retailers here until the EU actually stepped in?
Yes, the latter was illegal but it just shows what companies do when no regulation is there or it cannot be enforced.

The only way to deal with this is to give the government an incentive to actually work for all of society and not just some parts of it.
One way may be to tie part of their income to the average effective income(the one that lowers when prices rise while wages are stable) of average middle class people or whatever else is a good indicator of public wealth and cannot be easily raised by just catering to a few parts of society.
That is what Regulation is about. it is used by the weak against the powerful. In this case, it is the powerful in a cartel trying to push through rules to benefit itself. instead of attacking the cartel which is what should be done, Americans have this fetish to attack the government instead and thus, do no regulation, which would allow these big companies to simply swallow the smaller ones anyway.