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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1313971, member: 26302&quot;]Except even this is overemphasized by government to support their intervention. Long term such power is never sustainable in a free market absent breaking other laws, (threat of violence, etc). </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s talk it through. Standard Oil was held up as the poster child for Monopolies and the government broke them up. Do we really believe SO would today still be a monopoly in gasoline in the US today? You don&#039;t think the profits from this industry would not have attracted competitors? You don&#039;t feel at the least international companies would not have jumped in? Sure, SO could have held a monopoly for a while, but increasingly they would have to resort to threats and intimidation tactics, (all illegal civilly), to maintain it. If it became too severe, a SO monopoly may have forced automakers to convert to electric cars earlier, or encouraged more mass transportation. </p><p><br /></p><p>A more recent issue was people trying to say Microsoft should be broken up because they had a monopoly on operating systems. Well, we didn&#039;t, and the market has moved to different platforms, MS is still intact and we still are fine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am saying this just to make sure you don&#039;t drink the, &quot;only the government can save us&quot; koolaid. This is assuming there are no other motives to break up a company, something you KNOW is never the case. There are always firms &quot;persuading&quot; government officials to do their dirty work for them, so to speak.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are very right the biggest drag on our entire economy is too much government regulation. We need a 1980&#039;s deregulaton sweep again, to start over getting rid of old obsolete regulations, and putting into place ones that are needed, and only those needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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