[dragonwriter]

> There’s basically no example of a monopoly forming outside of government regulation.

The monopoly on force which defines the state must first form before there can be any government regulation, and thus must inherently form outside of government regulation.

Once that forms, of course, there is virtually no example of anything in human society forming outside of government regulation.

But taking the absence of evidence of how things behave “outside of government regulation” for evidence of ones preferred view of the difference between life under government regulation and without it is rather unwarranted.

[unishark]

I think they mean government regulations providing protection from competitors specifically. Not just all possible govt protection that everyone gets including competitors, for example from being robbed or invaded by Russia or whatever.