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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There's also an argument that if the business was that reliant on free things to start with, then it shouldn't be a business.

No-one would bat their eyes if the CEO of a real estate company was sobbing that it's the end of the rental market, because the company is no longer allowed to get houses for free.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Businesses relying on free things. Logging, mining, ranching, and oil come to mind. Extracting free resources of the land belonging to the public, destroying those public lands and selling those resources back to the public at an exorbitant markup.

[–] anomnom 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unregulated capitalism. That’s why people in dominant market positions want less regulation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Entrenched companies often want more regulation to prevent startup competition. Pulling the ladder up behind them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

To be fair, they want more regulation n others, not on them. Specially if they’re doing shady things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Extracting free resources of the land

Not to be contrarian, but there is a cost to extract those "free" resources; like labor, equipment, transportation, lobbying (AKA: bribes for the non-Americans), processing raw material into something useful, research and development, et cetera.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

While true, they tend not to bare the costs of the environmental damage, at least when these activities are poorly regulated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Was about to post the same thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The entire internet is built on free things.

Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Doesn't mean that businesses should allowed to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Agribusiness in shambles after draining the water table (it is still free)