The idea I'm getting so far from posters here is that you all have the right to use my body, my business, my resources, my services, and my property for YOUR own benefit because YOU want it. Fuck my rights. If you can benefit from my shit, you have the moral right to take it from me. And if I complain, then I'm the one who's shitting on liberty.
I hope I got that message right.
That's not how countries work though and it has nothing to do with 'rights'.
Businesses can't just get away with doing crazy shit because they're businesses. If your plane company decided everyone is going to stand during flight, you'd expect legislation because health and safety, discomfort etc. The government would be negatively affecting the business (chairs are expensive, damn it) for perfectly legitimate reasons.
You haven't explained why monopolies are good yet.
The principle that in order to be able to conduct business you need the protection from the society in several manners:
-You need society to comply and accept your claims of property.
-You need society to stablish a system that punishes whoever breaks a deal in order to create a minimum degree of trusts for business to even be possible.
-You need society to create a market where your business acquires a monetary value to others.
So yes, because when providing all these to you, the rest of the society is serving the business at their own expense, it's not unthinkable that the business have to reciprocate.
But soon after Mr Xi secured a third term, Apple released a new version of the feature in China, limiting its scope. Now Chinese users of iPhones and other Apple devices are restricted to a 10-minute window when receiving files from people who are not listed as a contact. After 10 minutes, users can only receive files from contacts.
Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
Wut. Do you understand how businesses work? If a plane company can make profits by making people stand and then faces no legislation, all plane companies will follow suit. Hey, it's free money! So...what then? Is your next argument "well people can...DRIVE" like the entire modern world didn't just happen? We have Health and Safety laws for a reason.
I don't care why monopolies exist (though you're wrong), the point was why you think they're good and want this one to occur. If monopolies are bad, why are you arguing one should be allowed to be created here?
and then the airline SHOULD go out of business. If they instead want to merge with another big airline, they are now making it so its even harder to avoid such practices. Eventually, they will get so big that they CAN dictate what practices the public must use. They will also end up in the "Too big to fail" category, which we all know how wonderful for the economy THAT is.
But soon after Mr Xi secured a third term, Apple released a new version of the feature in China, limiting its scope. Now Chinese users of iPhones and other Apple devices are restricted to a 10-minute window when receiving files from people who are not listed as a contact. After 10 minutes, users can only receive files from contacts.
Apple did not explain why the update was first introduced in China, but over the years, the tech giant has been criticised for appeasing Beijing.
Well, if people refuse (like you say they would) to flying while standing, and every plane company adopts that policy (like you say they would) then plane companies would go out of business overnight, and in order to avoid that, they would have to rethink their policies (maybe by installing seats in their planes). The market system already did what the government would have done, but more quickly and efficiently, and without using force.
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i will never forgive you for this blizzard.