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These anti-monopoly laws always end up as “make restrictions preventing new competitors at some cost the big companies can easily handle”.

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Yes, that's why the biggest companies are constantly lobbying to pass antitrust legislation. Because of the extensive history of small upstart competitors being destroyed in antitrust cases.

Always? All anti-monopoly laws, ever?

That’s a hypothesis explored by some authors, like here: https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/big-busin...

Libertarian is a word for people who are too bashful to describe themselves as Feudalists.

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