Oh I 100% agree. Natural monopolies are real things, and things I wish we would discuss a bit more seriously. Especially with their growing prevalence in the modern age. We still seem to be caught up in this dream that small startups can displace giants in every market. But you can't in things like online marketplaces, social media, ISPs, insurance (of any form), cell phones, streaming services, etc. Because when the product is the network, natural monopolies are going to rise and you can't really go around monopoly busting without just destroying the product itself. We've used monopolies in the past (e.g. AT&T gave us Bell Labs due to this deal), but we don't seem to take this seriously anymore and idk if we just don't have the energy or attention span to get even a little bit nuanced (which to be fair, we're often arguing before we can even introduce nuance despite that being needed to not fight). I mean to me it even seems like politics get shittier with scale due to natural monopolies (I don't want to hear how Europe has "multiple parties" they still only have 2 coalitions which is what US parties are actually closer to).