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Your first sentence is incorrect. Monopolies are not illegal.

From the press conference this morning: "It is not illegal to hold a monopoly, Garland said. "

"That may sound counterintuitive in a case intended to fight monopolies. But under US antitrust law, it is only illegal when a monopolist resorts to anticompetitive tactics, or harms competition, in an effort to maintain that monopoly."

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/doj-apple-antitrust-l...

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My first sentence is completely correct. I just happen to disagree with Merrick Garland's blatant misrepresentation of the Sherman Act.

So if everyone else decides to exit a market, your sole product becomes illegal?

Markets are typically broader than a single product and in the history capitalism has this actually happened?

yes. ASML.

There is always a first entity to start any market and always a last one to exit it. So technically it happens thousand of times per day. Surely it’s not illegal. I could decide to sell a completely useless crocodile-alike decorative robot companion for programmers that includes a powerful GPU that finetune your toy language model of choice or mine crypto when the GPU is not used as a robot. It would be silly, and I’d never actually do it, but surely the FCC or justice department wouldn’t have a problem with it.

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