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

mcdonalds is real meat

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

Did microsoft not actively suppress competition until the state intervened?

In order for a cartel to be worth it, you need to have a select few companies being the only ones operating in a market

there's a maple syrup cartel in Canada right now that has complete control over the prices, they are notorious for sabotaging competitors