No that's where you're wrong. Monopolies are the natural end to any market because monolith entities like that are the most efficient. Competition is less efficient from a profit perspective. That's exactly why anticompetition laws exist, and were created long before government intervention into the market. The train monopolies were due to the free market, not despite it.
No that's where you're wrong.
Except that I'm not and every example you tried to bring is an example against the point that you're trying to make.
Every single time you get a monopoly there are countless alternative solutions to the problem they are addressing. The only way a monopoly could stay is if it simultaneously maximizes the "profit" or "utility" of each individual. Which absolutely will never happen through a centralized monopoly.
Competition is less efficient from a profit perspective.
You're too narrowly focused to see the issue. Markets don't give a shit about the profit of a single conglomerate.
You make more profit by balancing the number of entities in a way that simultaneously optimizes their size and complexity as well as their individual profit.
No that's where you're wrong. Monopolies are the natural end to any market because monolith entities like that are the most efficient. Competition is less efficient from a profit perspective. That's exactly why anticompetition laws exist, and were created long before government intervention into the market. The train monopolies were due to the free market, not despite it.
Every single time you get a monopoly there are countless alternative solutions to the problem they are addressing. The only way a monopoly could stay is if it simultaneously maximizes the "profit" or "utility" of each individual. Which absolutely will never happen through a centralized monopoly.
You're too narrowly focused to see the issue. Markets don't give a shit about the profit of a single conglomerate.
You make more profit by balancing the number of entities in a way that simultaneously optimizes their size and complexity as well as their individual profit.