The government is a monopoly...
Also this is not the sole purpose of companies.. SpaceX is a trillion dollar company with 0 profit.
The free market has created everything you use the more we turn the keys over to government's the worse things get.
Companies can't get infinite profits because they will be undercut by other companies COMPETING. The government can get infinite power and control though.. they have no competition.
To establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.
> Also this is not the sole purpose of companies.
Friedman disagrees.
> The free market has created everything you use the more we turn the keys over to government's the worse things get.
Which is why we have never needed government regulation of things like food, air, water, shelter, work safety, accessibility, or anything else. The free market provides.
> The government can get infinite power and control though
Which is why in a free society the government is answerable to the people.
This might be your personal ideological creed, but it is not a self-evident axiom you can just assert with zero backing.
> Companies can't get infinite profits because they will be undercut by other companies COMPETING
Then why haven't they?
> The government can get infinite power and control though.. they have no competition.
Are you aware other countries with their own governments exist?
Give an example of something the government does better than the market?
> Then why haven't they? Give an example where they haven't?
> Are you aware other countries with their own governments exist? And they all lose the most free market America? Why would we do more like them?
This thread's topic, for starters?
> Give an example where they haven't?
This thread's topic, for starters?
> And they all lose the most free market America? Why would we do more like them?
I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, could you rephrase?
Roads, electricity, water, heathcare, pensions, public transportation, and social services.
The best government is deeply imperfect but the regulation free Libertarian paradise is probably best demonstrated by some warlord somewhere. Great for him, not for any other individual.
And it got there in part through the evisceration of NASA.
> The free market has created everything you use the more we turn the keys over to government's the worse things get.
Government funds research that has brought us such advances as moon landings, computers, and the internet. What an odd example you chose in SpaceX
Yes after the monopoly of NASA ended we now have several real space companies doing real advancement.
I personally have never used one of these "government computers" have you?
What would you say Musk’s goal is? And do we want more of that?
Isn’t that what this very link is about? Where is the competition and lower prices?
Power, water, food etc the story is the same - or at least it is where I am. New Zealand.