cheaper than sharing fairly.

A handful of people get jobs here and learn to make coins. They then find some financial backing and open another mint down the street that pays real wages.

but our brand of so-called capitalism involves tolerating a whole lot of anti-competitive actions.

barriers to entry, for instance, make it hard to get a competitor off the ground. then if competition ever seems likely to come, the established company can lower prices, bind its customers into long-term contracts, force its suppliers into exclusive agreements, etc.

never mind buy off governments, regulators, etc.


unfortunately, the solution the capitalism theorists would have you believe cures anything that's ever wrong with an economy takes years to happen, if it ever does -- and by then the problem that needs solving has changed.

just as soon as he figures it out.