| >make deals with the local death squads to be the sole suplier in your area Mysteriously, all the major grocery chains in my area switched from Buitoni to Rana tortellini a few years ago. I don't like the latter and refuse to buy it. I never thought of it being the death squads. It is a good point that markets are always run by someone and are never free in the sense of ungoverned. However, relationships with private entities tend to not be geographically exclusive in most cases. Whereas governments usually are. I could move to another city or state, but unless I uproot myself, I'm stuck with one city, one county, one state, and one country. There could be more competition, say, between Lowe's and Home Depot, but if I really want something and hypothetically they are colluding, I can probably find it somewhere locally, or online. |