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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by socialist_coder on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:16PM (#14179485)
I'm not sure what your point is. This isn't a free market because of monopolies or because of regulations?

To me, it seems like we have a completely free market here... and that is the problem. Companies are free to create and exploit monopolies. It's the final state of a completely free market.

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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by ams6110 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:21PM (#14179515)
80% of the market is not an unassailable monopoly. Such things rarely if ever exist unless they are created by regulation.
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Re:Want to rescue rural America? Bust monopolies by Aloisius on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:47PM (#14180077)
That depends on the actions of the market leader no?

There are any number of anticompetitive practices that the market leader can engage in to effectively eliminate any threat to their monopoly from tying to predatory pricing to exclusive deals.

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