Message from @Double Negative
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Ok, when they do
they can bide their time and slowly become a monopoly before making their move
Incorrect
Natural monopolies are incredibly rare and only happen when you can't compete with the products or when there is a tech barrier to reducing costs or improving designs
And even then they get broken up when literally anything changes
>natural
"whoops, this board of directors got wiped out by an unnamed killsquad. guess we, as an innocent third party, will buy the company after it devalues :^)"
The monopolies you see now wouldn't happen in a free market
The problem with ancapistan isnt a sole service provider like mcdonalds, but corporations with a natural monopoly on resources, or oligarchism
free market needs a governing force to keep it free
Itself
i'm just using mcdonalds as a placeholder for "big company", any company could do this if they had the capital to start
The idea of a free market is not simply a single face issue
Its a system that has checks and balances
Literally and figuratively
If one company got uppity, no one else wants to support them
They could, a nightmare scenario is mcdonalds purchasing all or most beef farms with their extraordinary wealth
Because people would be pretty happy
>mcdonalds
>real meat
Same reason why people dont want Nazism or Ancap now
and the rise of syndicates whom benefit from this monopolisation
The familiar is comfortable
of course there's filler
but there's still beef in those shitty thin patties
@a lone father k uh oh looks like in order to compete companies are making synthetic meat
Monopoly nullified
Oops
In a state controlled market there'd be a fucking 10 year wait to see if the meat is clear for consumption even if its literally just meat
By that time yeah beef monopoly would actually have caused massive damage
>10 year wait to see if the meat is clear for consumption
what
im pretty sure the ground beef in my freezer didnt take 10 years to get checked
@Double Negative no I'm saying synthetic meat
oh
Lab grown
Why would companies want to compete when there is more profit to be made joining this syndicate which has dictatorial control on prices and market power
so a cartel?
that's exactly what's happened with oil and maple syrup
The thing is market base
@Tinker Tom father k raises a really good point
cartels exist in history, they actively destroy competition even through sabotage
Not really @Double Negative