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In reply to the discussion: Businessmen don't "create jobs"... [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Depends in what a company produces -whether it is a functional necessity in modern society and how likely they are to exercise monopolistic or oligopolistic market power. Undergarments to make people look skinnier than they actually are seem not to fit, as it were, though it is possible that false advertising claims could be invoked against the end users in some cases. j/k
I'm a believer in this old-fashioned thing called antitrust law enforcement. As were both Roosevelts, Truman, JFK, and LBJ. Unfortunately it's now deader than the dodo even though the laws remain on the books. Clinton and Obama seem to have had zero interest in it, but then they're good corporatists and that kind of law enforcement is very, very bad for campaign contributions.