Here’s How Republicans Can Show They’re Serious About Free Markets - Businessweek
hese facts aren’t new.
What’s new is the tone.
Derek Khanna, the memo’s author, writes like an unashamed free marketeer, and in doing so manages to latch on to a larger point: Laws that help businesses often harm markets.
From the memo:
Today’s legal regime of copyright law is seen by many as a form of corporate welfare that hurts innovation and hurts the consumer.
It is a system that picks winners and losers, and the losers are new industries that could generate new wealth and added value.
We frankly may have no idea how it actually hurts innovation, because we don’t know what isn’t able to be produced as a result of our current system. (Emphasis in the original.)
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