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Because a monopoly is a special status that infers special powers and special responsibilities.

I'm not sure what is so hard to understand in that.

>Because a monopoly is a special status that infers special powers and special responsibilities.

In principal I have a problem with legally treating a company different if they have 85% market share as opposed to 30%. I am okay with making anti-competitive practices illegal but we should also enforce those on small companies.

The idea is that it is almost by definition more difficult or impossible for a small player to conduct anti-competitive practices, since there are other competitors to choose from.

if the practices used by the company were so bad and abusive, shouldn't the customers just move to another company? Voila, problem solved, the company no longer has monopoly.

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