I don't think what I wrote disagrees with your comments. China doesn't have the same type of monopoly problem we do. It's a different kind.
The point I am trying to make is that the effectiveness of the systems are constrained by their structure. It's not that we just have some monopolies that need to be destroyed. Because we keep getting new ones that hang around.
We need to improve the structure so that there is less tendency for monopoly and for monopolies to become entrenched.
Its like I am saying, look, to deal with this flat tire, we need to design a better tire. And you are saying, no, all we need to do is keep checking our tires. But this is the 15th flat tire we have had in the last two years. We need to design a better tire.
Fundamentally the problem is that there is a lack of metacognition. Governmental structure tends to be something that becomes part of a belief system. You need to have a good metacognitive sense of the difference between belief and objective reality before you can start to regularly examine and question your beliefs. This just requires a certain amount of exposure to the idea.
What's necessary is for people to fundamentally understand what money, government, and technology are and how they relate. And all of those concepts should evolve in a high tech direction.
The most likely way that is really going to happen at this point is probably via transhumans with higher intellect and better communication built-in.
Save the transhumanism for when we need to increase Dunbar's Number to overcome the tyranny of structurelessness[0]. If you want a proactive fix ("better tires") for monopolization, then bring back ownership caps and start scrutinizing mergers & acquisitions again.
The thing is, monopolies tend to be on the wrong side of the Innovator's Dilemma, but they short-circuit it by just buying the disruptors out. Think about how many technologies Google has developed internally versus bought and scaled up. If we prohibited them from buying startups, then the company, being a slow and lumbering monopoly, would eventually crumble like Kodak did.
Some scrutiny at the current banking system for keeping interest rates at 0% for a decade and change might also be deserved. Cheap capital makes it cheaper to buy your competition out.
[0] The Tyranny of Structurelessness is an essay that alleged that leaderlessness in various radical feminist and other left-libertarian movements was a smokescreen for unaccountable and undocumented leadership structures. This also applies to right-libertarian movements, Bitcoin, Ethereum DAOs, etc.
Point being that those ownership caps being removed etc. happened inside of a framework. The fact that so many things like removal of ownership caps happened and persisted is evidence that the framework is insufficient.
The point I am trying to make is that the effectiveness of the systems are constrained by their structure. It's not that we just have some monopolies that need to be destroyed. Because we keep getting new ones that hang around.
We need to improve the structure so that there is less tendency for monopoly and for monopolies to become entrenched.
Its like I am saying, look, to deal with this flat tire, we need to design a better tire. And you are saying, no, all we need to do is keep checking our tires. But this is the 15th flat tire we have had in the last two years. We need to design a better tire.
Fundamentally the problem is that there is a lack of metacognition. Governmental structure tends to be something that becomes part of a belief system. You need to have a good metacognitive sense of the difference between belief and objective reality before you can start to regularly examine and question your beliefs. This just requires a certain amount of exposure to the idea.
What's necessary is for people to fundamentally understand what money, government, and technology are and how they relate. And all of those concepts should evolve in a high tech direction.
The most likely way that is really going to happen at this point is probably via transhumans with higher intellect and better communication built-in.