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[Workaccount2]

In the free market the monopoly buys out the competitors. No need for banning. Shareholders, the embodiment of greed, will just follow the money.

[spencerflem → Workaccount2]

In a free market, there are monopolies, by definition.

If you're saying that capitalists will inevitably contort a free market to an unfree one, via whatever means (often mergers) then we agree.

IMO. a common misconception is that allowing all mergers is a "free market" policy when it is not

[spencerflem → spencerflem]

are no monopolies*