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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For all practical purposes, it's impossible to maintain a monopoly without government support and intervention.
Once again, the parallels between the Apple anti-trust suit and the Microsoft anti-trust suit are quite striking.
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Those two cases could not be any more different. One case (Microsoft) the defendant won, the other case the prosecutor won. In both cases both Amazon and Microsoft were not found guilty of breaking the law. Amazon because it was not on trial, and Microsoft because they won in court. In that sense intervention is necessary to protect the status of monopolies. Except not the way you are thinking. A monopolie's status needs to be protected from competitors that try to illegally break them apart if they are uncapable to do so in a fair and legal way. And the status also needs to be protected
from forced splitting up without legal grounds.
In an uncontrolled capitalism (no government laws / regulations) eventually there would be nothing but monopolies.