Yeah MA that was the idea of the whole modern democracy I think

well, it's sort of a 'chicken or the egg' problem

The red pillers have been saved

Monopoly has merely a **GREATER POTENTIAL** to be abused and worse consequences

But there are plenty of benevolent monopolies that we accept and take for granted

Is it finally happening guys? Are we winning? <:POGGERS:419435935915311104>

It's all risk management decisions rly

once you are a monopoly, you have no one to leagally come after you AS a monopoly

There is no winning only slowly accepting the reality that you never could win.

I think people who are like pep unironically have a very low threshold of acceptable risk

Monopolies are not disturbed unless they start to abuse their monopoly status

The "might" sometimes is worse than "will"

Hehe

Fucking brain

What are you doing

it's very easy for companies like google to 'prune the garden' and drive up-starts out of busines by running at a loss temporarly

Not only that, but you've got market-entry barriers, in which entrepreneurs aren't able to enter the market and capture revenue from the pricing disparities/artificial inflation and lack of competition, you'd see in a manipulated market.

they can afford it in the short term

exactly

It can't be a monopoly if anyone can enter and compete.

market entry is a very big problem and it is the center of the regulation debate in my view

Doesn't mean just anyone has what it takes. 😉

BOSE was a monopoly in electronic noise cancellation for years in Germany
No one cared, because BOSE did not use their monopoly status to squish their competition in unfair ways
Competition grew naturally and the issue resolved itself

voila

pharmacuticals are a classic example

But Bose chad company

Indeed.

Bose?

Some soylent night just be like

Böse? Haha

Screw democracy everything mine

The health insurance industry is another, @ManAnimal.

Which is why we have laws

I'll call my company eevel

Christ, don't get me started.

BOSE has an owner with a functioning ethics in his head. He is simply not a psychopath

Oligopolies everywhere.

on the front end, you need massive profit incentive to encourage the development of high tech drugs requiring massive risk and capital investment

but they you also want competition to drive down manufacturing costs

Pharma bros are the worst

but once a company owns a patent, they won't GIVE that info to manufacturers to drive down that cost