Into the Night
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Since communism is government ownership of markets, that is correct.
Monopolies do form from time to time, yes. They are unstable, however. It's a self correcting problem. No need for government intervention. Indeed, monopolies can only exist with government help.
Then the best course of action is to get government out of the way.
Monopolies destroy themselves. It isn't long before some little company comes a long and shoot's it's kneecaps off.
IBM was a monopoly. It was destroyed by Microsoft and Apple. Little is left of IBM now.
Microsoft is a monopoly. It has been destroyed by Linux. Microsoft has been effectively driven out of the server market, the automotive market, the cellphone market, and as far as developers are concerned, largely out of the personal computer OS market.
The still have a foothold in the OS market, and of course they are a distant 2nd place in the video game console market, but Microsoft has lost a LOT of market.
Ford was a monopoly in the automotive market. That was destroyed a long time ago by a whole plethora of car manufactures. Most of them have merged into General Motors now, but that has rapidly been losing market share to Japanese and European imports, and, of course companies like Tesla.
Boeing was a monopoly in the large aircraft market. So is Airbus. Both are maintained as monopolies by governments.
Polaroid was a monopoly in the instant image market. That has been destroyed by the digital camera, now so cheap they are incorporated into devices like cellphones, webcams, traffic cams, security cams, etc. Memory is now extremely cheap. Cheaper than the film we used to use.
Youtube was a monopoly. No longer. There is now Bitchute, Rumble, Gab.
Amazon does not have a monopoly on webservers. There are literally thousands of them out there. Parler is currently re-establishing itself on one of them. The bindery is already up.
Google has a monopoly on linux oriented cellphones. Android is, however, so bastardized as a linux that other people are starting to produce open linux phones. They can load up software from anywhere. Even Android can load up software from anywhere. You don't have to be limited to the Google Play Store.
Google has no monopoly on search engines. People are already moving to another company that does the same thing, only faster, and doesn't monitor every aspect of your searching like Google does. It's called DuckDuckGo.
Big Tech isn't as powerful as you think. People are already moving to alternatives. This has already hit Twitter and Facebook hard right in the ole' pocketbook. It's hitting Google too. Amazon Web Services has violated it's terms of service (like the others have). They are currently being sued for contract violations because of it. People now have a lot less faith in going through the expense and effort to build a website on AWS. Several of them are already looking for alternate servers. AWS is good for developing services, but it's not a reliable place to keep one. I think a lot of people understand that now.
The Alexa service is still pretty useful. It's easier to write nice skills on AWS, and the multi microphone technique of noise cancellation is very effective, but Google Cloud has the advantage of location information and a better dictionary. It's bit disadvantage is that it's a royal pain to code for. Microsoft has Azure of course, and while it beats Google Cloud pretty effectively, it is much more expensive than AWS.
Other cloud services are already coming together. They will be completely open sourced....essential a series of 'micro clouds'.
Even expensive firewalls are no longer necessary. A cheap raspberry Pi can do the job quite effectively. I know several folks that have done this. They've even replaced whole server racks with a pile of Pis. Virtual machines are in many cases no longer even necessary.
The world is 'a changin'.
