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[drewmandan]

Microsoft has no government enforcement. Nothing is stopping people from switching to Linux. By continuing to use Windows, people are simply voluntarily choosing to pay a premium for a single standard. That's natural and healthy. You cannot compare something like that to government-enforced monopolies, that's just silly.

[Capnwabbit]

Mono in monopoly means "one", not simply the best, most popular and successful one.

There is no such thing as a monopoly in a free market - such things happen only via government 'licensing', 'regulations' and other crap to damage or prevent competition. There is no such help for Microsoft, quite the opposite in fact, as European Union keeps kicking them for being too successful. How about we kick Google for dominating the Internet, or Youtube for dominating online video?

[TWSceptic]

@Capnwabbit I have to disagree with that, they weren't kicking MS for being too successful, but because MS is making it impossible to have a fair competition. I'm not for government intervention either, but in the case of MS I'd say it was the right thing to do. Unless you're a MS fanboy, you have to acknowledge this.

[langbei]

@drewmandan Microsoft desperately fights to get Windows into schools. Why? Because they know, like the cigarette manufacturers, that if they can get their target market hooked early, inertia will take care of the rest. There's a lot less choice involved than you seem to imply.

[langbei]

@drewmandan Microsoft desperately fights to get Windows into schools. Why? Because they know, like the cigarette manufacturers, that if they can get their target market hooked early, inertia will take care of the rest. There's a lot less choice involved than you seem to imply.

[brothermikefan]

"If he gives you health insurance, there's no tax."

Wha?

[cowmo]

oh yes i agree with you there. when people see that the government is flipping the bill they know they can charge more. but that's beside the point. the u.s. government could easily pay for everyone's healthcare if we cut some of the 651.2 billion dollars from the military. but that price raise works for private insurance companies too, because, again, when doctors see that someone else is flipping the bill the price goes up. but in that case, not everyone has it, and some get fucked.

[hockeypuck999]

You have apparently skipped econ 101 (or was it 201?). Macroeconomics, study the supply and demand curves. But think about this, the electric wheel chair ads, people can get them at "no cost". Do you think they would be cheaper if the govt didn't pay for them? If people were spending their own money on them, of course they'd be cheaper! Why have health care costs spiraled upward only since the government meddled in the health care market, starting with medicare and medicaid in the 1960s?

[cowmo]

hmm. well most of this "waste" would be going toward higher paying jobs, since they don't have to worry about making a profit, they can afford to pay more than minimum wage. as for the canada topic, canada actually has a large budget surplus, and i've never heard of them "begging for money". and if their healthcare an education services are deficient, why would americans cross the border to abuse their system? and why are they ranked higher than the u.s. for both?

[StrafingMoose]

Not really, since governmental structures encourages waste (they usually have a monopoly on the service they try to provide) so the waste and deficits are inevitable. For example, Canada doesn't have much military to pay for, and health care is aweful and always begging for more money to run the same services years and after years. Same in Quebec, no military at all to pay for, very deficient education and healthcare services.

[cowmo]

health care could easily be paid for if we made serious cuts from unnecessary military programs, brought the troops back, and stopped paying PMCs to do our dirty work. not just health care, but improved education, mass transit lines etc. all the things that america fails on when compared to any other civilized nation.