Elon Musk, the owner of X, criticized advertisers with expletives on Wednesday at The New York Times’s DealBook Summit.

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    Capitalism has built in rules against market manipulation and monopolies

    It most assuredly does not. Addressing these externalities is the responsibility of government.

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      The fact that it requires a free and open market are the rules and since it’s a component of the government the government has to make sure the system is free and open.

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        I’m sorry, you think Twitter is a component of the US government?

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          No, capitalism is a component of the government. The point is to get the government out of twitter which records have shown the government was in twitter prior to Elon’s takeover.

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            Capitalism is not, and definitionally cannot be, a component of the government. It is an economic system

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                Can you explain what you mean using other words? I am not great with loose language in general.

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                  By stating that, it was a component of the government. In that context I was using component loosely.