The global opposition party is beginning this process. It deserves our respect. If trade tends to moot the role of government, so does technology. Celebrants of the Internet economy view it as the pure expression of free commerce. Any buyer can connect with any seller.
Any entrepreneur is free to invent any new channel of distribution.
Armed with infinite information, the consumer is king. Gov ern ment's only job is to get out of the way and resist the temptation to tax, regulate, or otherwise meddle. However, in this free market nirvana, there is little loyalty to producers, so prices and profits tend to get competed away. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson certainly did. In his landmark finding of fact, the judge basically found for the Justice Department and the private complainants.