I feel so sorry for deluded ayn rand retards and lolbertarians who still believe in the free market bullshit.
tl;dr most if not all market these days are mixed/regulatory economies. even the US is a regulatory economy, I mean, why do US has department of justice?
Believe or not, I have a few family members, though not really close, in big international companies. We are content capitalists because well, we make money, and quite frankly, we are selfish lots. But my relatives are open about big companies acquiring small, successful companies to buy the IP and products, rebrand them as their own and make profits. That's how multi
billion businesses grow; they are very conservative in their own R&D because the CEOs and stockholders are interested in money, money and money only, and they will not undertake any risks that cost them profits. So, it's easier to scout smaller start up companies with promising products, collaborate them, and eventually buy them. This means that big companies will only get bigger and bigger to the point their only real competitors are other big multibillion companies. Small businesses can't survive anymore with every commodity being "walmart"-fied one way or the other. I mean, do you want to go to a no-name piece of shit clothe store in your downtown, or Walmart that sells cheap shit that you can return later? Customers are always selfish, as they should, and they will pick whta's easy for them, just like how multibillion businesses do. That is why, per my uncle, "innovation is dead and we are all pretending."
From my perspectives, lolbertarians default mindset is to argue in favor of "winning side," which is always, businesses. Customer rights or labor rights are afterthoughts or even detriment to their pro-business beliefs, as Ayn Rand openly loathed workers and any government attempts against businesses. In essence, it's a self-serving ideology with self-fulfilling prophecy; elect corrupt politicians, the politicians do some shit that fuck people's lives, other corrupt fucks say "government is corrupt, we should downsize their influence!", people buy that KoolAid, and elect other corrupt fucks that will funnel taxpaye'rs money to their business friends. IT's a vicious cycle that has happened since that retard Reagan became the President.