[WalterSear]

>The question of how much do we have to pay to get various financial services should in theory be solve by competition. The problem is that some financial institutions are behaving like a cartel and the government is undermining competition by stepping in to save failing financial institutions.

This is the endgame of all capitalist markets. There isn't any other end game, no matter how much people would like there to be one to satisfy their personal ideologies.

[hueving]

It would be nice if you had some evidence other than your own personal ideology.

[WalterSear]

There are mountains of evidence. Though none, I suspect, that will rock you off your little throne.

Edit: I should have made this comment with more tact and empathy, and maybe have been a whole load more hearable for it.

[lliamander]

There is, of course, plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as exploitation.

There is also plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as spontaneous collaboration and growth.

Denying only one or the other of these statements is indicative of one beholden to an ideology.

[danharaj]

> There is also plenty of evidence for the narrative of capitalism as spontaneous collaboration and growth.

There is? Has capitalism developed in any region of the world without the explicit help of a state? Even the birth of capitalism in Europe was facilitated by governments forcibly enclosing land into larger estates.

[sdenton4]

It involves garages and bootstraps, and tends less to mention ivy Alma maters, government subsidies, social connections, or sheer luck.

[WalterSear]

The endgame is the endgame, not the beginning or middle. Ultimately, there is no capitalist mechanism to prevent the sale of the market, or the tragedy of any other commons.

[thenobsta]

Can you share some evidence for people not on a throne?

[winfred]

Nvidia, Intel, YKK, Standard Oil.