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Quote by: Carrie Spooner  How would these aggressive monopolies form in a truly free market?
So you'd rather have mob rule? We already have what you propose and I think even you would agree that it isn't working well, to put it mildly. |
I see no reason why it can not, and while the era of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers was not truly free it was much freer than it is now. Suppose a giant aggressive monopoly does form.
Such a monopoly should be forcefully broken up, no? Hypothetically if such a monopoly really is the optimal solution to providing a service and breaking it up would be bad, then it should be socialized. I can't think of a circumstance where a giant monopoly would do something better than a group of smaller competing companies, but if it was so I do want some means of easy public control.