Quote:A free market works the same as a game of Monopoly; everyone starts out the same but soon one player gains an advantage is able to exploit that to remove the other players from the game. Every game ends up with the final player holding a complete monopoly over the once free market, their wealth and power is completely unchallenged and they can effectively do as they please. 

 

Free market in the real world end up the same; a true free market will always result in a monopoly. 

 

Your assertion might be true if there were a finite amount of wealth.  There isn't, so a comparison of a real world free market economy to a game of Monopoly is laughable.  

 

And much has been said in this thread about regulation staving off monopolies, yet it was deregulation of the phone companies in the mid '90s that did much to promote competition.  Local exchange companies (LECs) now face competition from Competitive local exchange companies (CLECs), cable and satellite providers.  This, in turn, was a great benefit to consumers, which saw products and services become better and less expensive.  How many remember having to pay for long distance calls?  

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