[TeMPOraL]

I think cousin_it is not talking about just capitalism and markets, he's talking about optimization processes and game theory. The idea is, if you have two populations and one is better at using resources to grow than the other, then the first one will outgrow and displace the second. The "populations" and "resources" are free terms here; you can substitute for them "companies" and "profit", or "rat populations" and "food" - the point is, this mechanism holds in abstract.

> Either way, all you need is the non-aggression principle and respect for property rights. And these "powerful entities" will never be able to coerce their way into the full market dominance that you describe.

Non-aggression principles and respect for property are not laws of physics, they need to be actively enforced to have any meaning. For example, the reason patent trolling is profitable is that the victims stand to loose too much in a fight, even if they would ultimately win. We're having a hard time enforcing anything against rich people today, it's hard to see how this will change when the rich get orders of magnitude richer while the poor won't be able to provide any value to exchange for food.

The transition process will be hard and painful, but I do hope we'll emerge victorious on the other side, and that cousin_it's vision will be only temporary.