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Regarding your edit

> Unless granted by a government, monopolies don't exist in free markets.

You made that claim, it's your responsibility to prove it first, not everyone else's to disprove it after you've made a flat, unsubstantiated claim.

What is your definition of "monopoly" and "free market"?

If I define "free market" as any market which is incapable of forming a monopoly, then yes, your statement is trivially true. But it naturally dis-includes a wide variety of markets that actually exist and may actually have monopolies.

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If you want to say that something exists you need to define that thing first. Otherwise anything that follows couldn't possible be rational on account of logic.

I also refer to my other comment in this thread (long, I refer to Apple and Epic) about why a definition of monopoly is necessary and also impossible.

I will add the exception of a government granted monopoly. In that case the government passes a law in which a company or whomever has the unique privilege to supply a product to the market, the precise definition of which will be given in the government's law.

Whereas you have not given a definition of a monopoly I will define a free market as the array of voluntary transactions between people/groups in a society, absent any threat of violence.

> If you want to say that something exists you need to define that thing first.

I have yet to say anything, in one direction or another.

You're saying a monopoly cannot exist given a free market. You define what you mean by "monopoly" and I can agree or disagree. You define what you mean by "free market" and I can agree or disagree. We can go from there. But YOU need to start.

Based on your statement "socialism is as bad as genocide" (I'll let Norway, a country which has embraced state ownership or "socialism" while consistently having one of the highest per capita GDP in the world know they're to blame for the Holocaust???), as well as your obnoxious insistence that everyone else do the footwork for you, I don't particularly care what you have to say -- you appear to have disappeared up your own rectum frankly.

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