Challenge/Plausibility Check: Pro-Competition and Pro-Market Socialism

You do realize that it helps both right?

In absolute terms, yes. In much the same way that, in absolute terms, a wage-slave in 2010 has it better than John D. Rockefeller. In terms of the class struggle, transportation infrastructure is almost always a victory for the upper class.

It doesn't really matter because the net result is still an oligopoly, which isn't what you want anyways

The net result is that the distorted capitalist market still cuts down firms that get too big.

and this matters because...

It doesn't. I had gotten caught up in contradicting you, instead of arguing my position. I apologize and retract that statement. The actual answer according to the theory I'm defending is that Walmart and McDonald's are able to get and stay so big because the State externalizes their distribution costs onto the taxpayer.

As to mini-mills, they don't have to be franchises either. Regardless, they represent a vast reduction in capital costs required to enter the market.

Dude then you have to back it up

THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO HERE? PLAY CHESS?

e4 ;)

And do you think either of those are even remotely intelligent?

They would certainly deal a huge blow to the power of Capital in regards to labor. I do not make those suggestions lightly, but because they are real options that deserve serious consideration before being dismissed or implemented.

And who exactly collects this toll?

The ones who build and maintain the roads of course.
 
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