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The shortest answer is "a system with strong pro-consumer regulations where you can't buy people and laws legally and illegally".

This idea proved to be a nice one, but unfortunately it includes humans.

In a more broader sense, we needs checks and balances. A better version of this idea is a "bigger government", where government not only regulates, but builds the baseline products which pushes other companies to compete to build better goods.

But this generates tons of brouhaha. It's called "communism", "non-free markets", "government intervention", etc.

In reality, private companies hate and despise real competition, because a corporation is (or has become) an establishment for generating shareholder value, not make customers happy beyond the level required to keep the company afloat.




i think "consumer protection" laws is a good start. "bigger government doesn't quite correlate with "better product".




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