So every company that is not immediately selling enough to cover its fixed costs and its variable cost should be illegal? Every company and every new initiative must be profitable from day one in your world?

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cyberax an hour ago | parent [-]

If it's a large company, that can dominate the market by absorbing the losses until competition disappears?

Arguably, yes.

	▲	raw_anon_1111 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So that means for instance it was illegal for Netflix to get into the streaming business or for Apple to start selling iPods because neither could do it profitably from day one? Should Microsoft have not been allowed to sell operating systems and still survive from selling BASIC interpreters? Should Nintendo have not been allowed to sell video games and still be selling playing cards? Every company that is interested in survival takes profits from an existing business to start a new one,