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    3 years ago

    While abolition of e.g. copyright and patent laws would severely destabilize current economical powers, mathematical models show that an economy with no regulation always becomes an extreme monopoly, even in the absence of any a priori inequalities.

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      3 years ago

      That’s true but based on certain assumptions. If you have private property and competition, then deregulation necessarily leads to injustice. If you have a self-organized cooperative economy (arguably without money), that’s not the case.