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Proof competition is better for the free market

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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.
 
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.