Message from @The Lemon
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the free market rules supreme
Not in trains
For example
If I want to get from London to reading on the british "free market" rail system
How many options of train company do I have
The answer is one, I can only go on south western trains
Which are notorious for ridiculously high ticket prices and Rampant delays all the time
But there's no possibility for a competitor to come in and take their place because there's only one train track and they own all of the trains on it
So unless someone was to come and build new train tracks all around the UK (which would be impossibly expensive) SWT are always going to have a monopoly on the trains in that part of the country
So even if you do have a "free market" there's going to be a natural monopoly
Therefore in this scenario its better to have a state owned monopoly where the people controlling it have to answer to the voting population rather than a company which owns the monopoly which cant be ousted by the people and is only trying to make profit
Obviously this only works in specific scenarios
Aka why I didn't say it works all the time
It dosen't
And that's why communism fails
Because communism tries to apply that everywhere
But in sectors like water rail and healthcare nationalization can work better
No. Governments can limit Monopolies, and that's just fine.
A private Monopoly, can be held accountable for their actions, an entire government can not be so easily.
a Monopoly exsists beacuse its good
when its bad ppl dont use it
and it starts to fail
You can't hold a private monopoly accountable in that situation
Unless you boycott the trains
why not
But in that case millions of commuters can't get around
if the Monopoly is bad ppl will go to other places
Or sue them
Who?
Also what grounds do you have to sue them
Said Monopoly
It's not like they intentionally set up a monopoly
most Monopoly are created beacuse of govement
Its the nature of the rail industry
gov regulations
that limit busnies
Gov regulations can't stop a monopoly in that sector
As I said