NationStates Jolt Archive

RECOGNIZING the increasing importance of computer technology in today's global economy
TROUBLED BY the fact that without competition, no corp--o--*e*ration has incentive to create new products
NOTING that two companies will not share trade secrets
STRONGLY URGES all member nations to break up or permenantly close any corporation that abuses a monopoly, unless *the nation's government decides* that *the* company has redeeming quality that would -v-*b*e destroyed by a breakup or the close of that company

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Why so specific? We should be targetting monopolies in general, not just in the IT sector.

This is a working paper I am working on. (OOC: Send that to the department of redundancy department). Please help me fix errors. I have submitted a similar proposal before, but did not get feedback. I am hoping that feedback will help to make this a passed resolution soon.

Why so specific? We should be targetting monopolies in general, not just in the IT sector.
Well, have to start somewhere. But I might add that anyway.

EDIT: Actually, (though so vauge about this I didn't notice w/o rereading) it only focuses on IT, but applies to all monopolies. I'll need to clarify.

to fail.

What if the economy of a nation is all monopolies? Your anti-monopolistic thrust is aimed squarely at free-market capitalist nations, and will likely get a sympathetic hearing there, but please 'splain how this would affect a dictatorship where the government has a monopoly on all communication? (E.g., radio, tv, printing, internet, telephone, etc.)

While I agree with using markets to create competition, not destroy it, this proposal crosses into that dark, dirty realm where you're trying to crush any system of beliefs that does not agree with your own. In this case, it's economic ways of life. To break up monopolies might work in a carbon copy of your own economic system, but this is pure catastrophe for nations that don't share your own beliefs.

It makes the exeption for those monopolies that have a redeeming quality, and I'd say the maintenance of the economy counts for that.

This is truly a niche proposal. I think I'm going to pass because it really doesn't do a whole lot (who can't argue that their monopoly has a redeeming quality?). Also, why IT business? It's really not the place of the UN to try and stimulate a global market like this. It's a national economic issue or one that can be dealt with by dialogue between nations.

Can you convince me that this is more urgent than the security and trade rights proposals that are out there?