Proof competition is better for the free market

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A week ago a labradar would sell for 600, now they are in the PX for 400. A months ago a radius was over 1k. I just saw one for 750.

Funny how a little competition can change things and this is why big corporations buy little
Businesses for no reason.

 

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Yea yea. But people don’t believe it’s true. There are people who think competition in the marketplace is a bad thing.

 

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Price dives in the second hand market in this industry when something new comes out, is more indicative of the gear chase after new and shiny than true marketplace competition.

 

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Competition is what leads to innovation and technological breakthroughs. Everybody wants to one-up and new fields get explored, new theories proven, new discoveries made.

Government regulation or worse, collectivization, leads to stagnation, complacency, and slow decay because there are no incentives in such environments to be better and achieve more.