Voltano said:
Its like a bread baker saying he is being 'stolen from' by other bread bakers because he isn't making any money in the market since he isn't reaching his expected income with the sale of his bread.
Isn't it more like a bread baker saying he's losing sales because someone has set up a stall right at the entrance which gives away for free the same bread he's trying to sell?
Oh! And then he tries selling new 'cheese and bacon rolls' as an incentive to people, but they're only allowed to eat the cheese and bacon rolls while they stay inside his shop(to stop the stall finding his recipe), but within a couple of days the stall at the entrance has learned the recipe anyway and is now giving away cheese and bacon rolls too (again, for free) AND the stall isn't forcing people to eat them in one place like he is.
Some people start taking the stall rolls because they don't want to be forced to stay in his shop to eat, though most are people who were using the stall before anyway. One day he asks on of the people why, asides from being free, they keep taking the stalls stuff over his own. The person answered honestly that they're lazy, the stall is right at the entrance and gives away everything he's offering, and the fact its free does play a big factor in it.
This gives the baker an idea, let the stall have its cheesy bacon rolls and bread, he can't really beat that. Instead, he'll give out something free of his own for anyone who buys their stuff from him.
So then he starts giving away cupcakes! A couple of the people who tried his cheesy bacon rolls and his bread for free decide they'll buy the bread and cupcakes from him out of respect, cause they know he's really the one coming up with the recipes and cupcakes are pretty nice. Unfortunately, less than half of them actually show him this respect, and as the stall starts selling cupcakes too he finds himself losing out even more.
... Man, I could go on with this example for ages.
Long story short, After many trials and tribulations the bakery industry adapts to these stalls, but its not really for the better. His bakery is replaced with larger more aggressive bakeries that buy into tactics like handcuffing their customers to the counter, or selling their bread one slice at a time, or selling people bread licenses that give them a right to eat bread but one false move and you will be punched in the stomach so that you throw up all bread you've bought from them. They also pass a bill that lets them shut down any stall they want to simply by requesting it (Little timmy's lemonade stand is the first to go to this easily abused system. Many others follow, but timmy was the most adorable and thus heartbreaking).
On the plus side most people own giant tv's and flying boat cars by this time and on a completely unrelated note they also solved piracy. ((Turns out there were some old laws about pirates receiving the death penalty, most people avoid piracy pretty fervently now since they started enforcing them again.))
