So long as consumers continue to pour resources into powerful firms through the marketplace, these firms' exploitation of competitors, taxpayers, and ideological adversaries is likely to continue.
Ludwig von Mises understood that in a market economy, the firms that are most successful are those that succeed in the "Democracy" of the marketplace.
These firms' success merely means people like to use their products.
It is hard to deny that firms like Google and Facebook got to where they are by winning "Votes" in the "Consumers' democracy." Nonetheless, some critics of today's corporate jihad against ideological adversaries insist that these firms are only successful because they are "Monopolies" or that they only gained so much market share by dirty tricks and corporate welfare schemes.
Yes, these firms have likely managed to increase profits and diminish competition through intellectual property laws, through tax breaks, and through regulations that favor large firms over small firms.
No matter how hostile or condescending these firms and their leaders get, hundreds of millions of consumers of all ideological bents just keep slavishly logging in to Facebook and watching many hours of videos on YouTube.
So long as these firms enjoy the votes of consumers in the "Consumers' democracy" the firms are likely to be profitable.
https://mises.org/wire/how-facebook-turned-its-market-success-culture-war-america
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