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> ... but both sides just impose regulation that benefit established firms and sell out consumers.

Can't agree more. Corporatist rent-seeking is the fundamental problem with our political economy and/or society. But both sides keep talking past each other (as they are incentivized to do).



rent-seeking

Tangent, thanks. This is the phrase I was trying to conjure to mind earlier today in a discussion about the very topic of this thread. Ended up taking a long, exhaustive and context-laden road to get to my point; after which I had already lost an audience but so it goes.

For the interested: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rent-seeking




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