Comment by Joker_vD

> This isn't "the market working as intended", this is an exhaustion fight to the bottom where the one with most money gets to stay in the market.

That's, uh, pretty much exactly how oligopolistic markets function.

> I find it hard to compare that with a free market.

Well, to have free market you need to remove as much barriers to enter the market as possible. Huge capital investments required for entry and intellectual property laws are two examples of such barriers. Subsidies kinda supposed to help alleviate the first one.