New to ancap ideology, curious to know more.
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Thats a good point, most companies can offer the illusion of choice by diversifying their product lines along different price points or feature optimization.
Ive worked for a few global companies, and the level of control across regions is scary. Many global companies (like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft) can afford to have offices in every major country, and many times multiple office locations in those same countries. Due to their flat corporate structure in tech companies, they are highly agile to shifting market conditions all across the world, and its scary to think if a company had a complete stranglehold on the global economy they could really shut down local competition.
More recently, its been government intervention thats been trying to hold back the growing influence of these tech companies (GDPR and the lawsuit against Google in the EU come to mind right away), but Im wondering if government is the only way to respond to a growing oligopoly or monopoly, or if theres an free market "event horizon" where a certain level of competition must exist in order to prevent a monopoly from forming.
Speaking of illusion of choice; I previously worked for AT&T and was privy to the fact that they actively work with other internet service providers to negotiate non-compete regions so they can all charge exorbitant prices for sub par services. This primarily happens in suburb and exurb communities. Why I don't believe that regulation is a net positive, to say that there are not specific situations where it has it's merits is equally mistaken. Still though, if having to chose between over-regulation and ancap, i'd take ancap any day. I'm tired of being told what I can and cannot do with the product of my own labor. I am not a slave.
I feel ya, my neighborhood only has comcast and I hate not having any choice or competition. But would you say that AT&T got those non-competes from government regulation or from bargaining with other private companies? I really dont know much about the ISP and cell coverage market.