Extreme wealth disparity is not due to a lack of taxes, but rather a lack of competition.

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Extreme wealth disparity is not due to a lack of taxes, but rather a lack of competition. In a competitive market, profit margins are quite low. If any one company tries to set its prices much higher than the cost of production, rivals quickly undercut it. Unfortunately, large parts of our economy are blocked off from competition by laws and regulations. This allows monopolistic corporations to charge exorbitant prices.

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Therefore, it is important to understand how billionaires create and maintain these monopolies that allow them to amass such unfathomable riches.

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A lack of competition allows billionaires and their corporations to not make, but take wealth from everyone else. It is not enough to merely tax them on their ill-gotten gains. We need reforms to ensure that they can’t exploit and fleece everyone in the first place.

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  • JairajDevadiga@lemmy.worldOP
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    12 days ago

    insist on the nonsensical idea that we can and should fix things from within it and under its rules (and in your example, using one of its most toxic and destructive elements)

    I don’t think I am saying that at all. Could you point out the specific passages which come across that way?

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      The whole entire thing.

      Competition is unnecessary.

      Humans are not in a battle for survival, there is enough for everyone.

      It is artificial bullshit created and enforced by capitalists to make them as much money and power as possible.

      Competition, by definition creates and breeds and encourages inequality and oppression of others.

      There is no good reason to cling on to it, never mind try to base a plan for a better society on it