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Or let private corporations do whatever they want. Let there be new ones that come in and fill the gaps. Make competition easier by busting monopolies.



I kinda support your point, but at the same time I'm not sure it's entirely realistic. Here we assume that everything will have competition given the free market. But this is hardly true, some markets are biased towards having a monopoly. Because of the economies of scale, because in practice some services have only so much demand and, the most importantly for our discussion, some services are the more valuable for the user, the more users there are using it. This is especially true for all social-network-like services, like Facebook and, yeah, Patreon.




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