[erik_seaberg]

The market decides how much to produce, capitalism scales up the best producers.

Producers want monopolies but somehow we need to keep a flow of promising new producers launching so that doesn't happen, because it screws up the market (the monopolist produces less and takes more for it).

[nicoburns]

Or we could regulate the market to not allow monopolies (and break up large businesses). We have laws for this, they're just not enforced.

[erik_seaberg]

The race is kind of pointless if we're just going to shoot the winners.