Technology

I don't know if you understand what protectionism is. Protectionism is favoring domestic production over foreign. I don't think it has anything to do with your comment. The way you're using it seems to be just not holding them accountable. That's just capitalism though. They buy the legislators who create the justice system.

I agree larger corporations should face more scrutiny or liability. I've never seen a Libertarian express this opinion though. The standard libertarian position is: "The larger company earned its money and should be free to spend it how they wish, including molding the system to its desires. The Market decided they're the most capable after all."

I haven't seen those originals disappear...

It happens. You probably wouldn't notice it, but it's constantly going on. It's particularly bad for niche product. Things like charging cables or whatever, the market is large enough to support multiple products, and there's only so far Amazon is willing to cut it and those are cost so little for anyone to make.

Neither should be the end goal, the goal should be leaving people alone so they can pursue happiness on their own.

A goal has to be something measurable, but sure. Yeah. That's basically what I said. Improve lives (meaning happiness). That essentially implies freedom to persue what you want. I don't know what else it could mean. However, it also need to include companies leaving people alone. The government isn't the only source of authority influencing peoples lives, and we need a government to protect them.

Obviously, I haven't dealt in specifics at all and I represented it in fairly extreme language to make a point. The idea I'm trying to convey is that I think less is more absolutely applies to the government, and we should strive to simplify it to where it's transparent enough that the average person actually understands what government does.

I largely agree, but I think the key point of why anarchism (aka, removing hierarchy, not no government) is the way I went is because, with hierarchy, those with resources will always buy an advantage. We need a government that actually represents the people, which means it needs to be made of the people, not lifelong legislators. Some of that should be direct democracy where it can be, but rotating representatives chosen from regular people who serve temporary terms, so they can't gather power, is ideal. As long as capital controls the government then capitalists will buy the system, and libertarians generally (not saying you specifically) argue this is part of the design and good, because they proved "they know best."