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by three_seagrass 1998 days ago
Grocers are not natural monopolies.

Adam Smith died before John Stuart Mill coined the concept, and a full century before electricity was invented.

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Similarly, he also didn't blindly support the idea of free markets solving every problem, nor ignored that they have their limitations, in the way that he is portrayed by the people selectively quoting him.