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by vertex-four 3709 days ago
Honestly, usually not. There's an argument to be made that capitalism causes industries to tend towards monopolies (or at least oligopolies) in many areas, monopolies centralise money, money equals power, power then gets used to remove safety nets in the name of making more money - so the current state of things is nearly inevitable. Even if the vast, vast majority of cases don't lead to monopolies, it only takes a couple of large industries.