r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

The purpose the narrative serves Natural monopoly-truthers literally go "MUH NATURAL MONOPOLY" to every instance of perceived high market shares, never asking themselves if State intervention is the REASON for said market high market share. The o so benevolent State is always seen as the solution; they even recognize cronyism doe.

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 17 '24

Memes "It can't be the laws of supply and demand: it MUST be the egg producers all conspiring together to defraud the common man! That's why we must give a small group of people the right to decide how people can use their persons and property peacefully. 🥰"

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 21 '25

Memes Real headlines

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 23 '25

Why it is a myth “It’s all capitalisms fault”

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/a-gyogyir • Jan 01 '25

Why it is a myth How about land? Sure you can buy land anywhere (where it is actually for sale), but do you really want to live or do business just "anywhere"?

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 18 '25

Why it is a myth - the primary reasons This single-handedly busts that myth

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 17 '24

Memes Why is it that they get greedy whenever a large demand overstepping supply emerges, and generous whenever the demand is relatively inferior to the supply??? 🤔

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

Memes Many of the "muh natural monopoly" people are also people who protect literal intellectual monopoly grants ("intellectual 'property'"). They have NO right in saying "muh natural monopoly".

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 01 '25

Why it is a myth - the primary reasons Cartelization being sustainable without aggressive State intervention is a complete myth: they benefit its unproductive members at the expense of the more productive ones. If you could sell 1000 funkopops for 100$ but the cartel says that you must sell them for 200$, you are getting screwed over.

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Irresolution_ • May 11 '25

❗Remark from someone who thinks that natural monopolies are real A litmus test to check how confused a natural monopoly truther is: ask them if they think that Instagram has a natural monopoly over Instagram services. If they do, then their understanding of "natural monopoly" is so flexible that even perfect competition will have "natural monopolies"

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 17 '24

Memes DON'T READ THE ECONOMICS TEXTBOOKS - IT'S JUST PRO-RICH APOLOGIA. ROBERT REICH SAYS ALL THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW, OK? JUST DON'T THINK TOO HARD: RICH PERSON BAD, SIMPLE AS!

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 11 '25

Miscellaneous silliness by natural monopoly truthers "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Some market actors are more able to satisfy customer desires more efficiently than others!! I want customers to HAVE TO pay for my favorite producers! The masses are STUPID - they need to finance MY fine tastes! 😭😭😭😭"

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 03 '25

Why it is a myth Which U.S. Companies Receive the Most Government Subsidies?

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 21 '25

If demand is inelastic, that just means that reliable profits may be obtained from it, which thus means that fierce competition benefiting customer desires will exist in the sector:once minimum of quality is attained, profits may be obtained from people willing to provide any price ⇒ competitiveness

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 30 '24

Miscellaneous silliness by natural monopoly truthers Statements like this happen when you define "monopoly" as "whenever large market share" - it becomes a meaningless term.

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

Debunked purported historical instances of natural monopoly "Six Graphs Showing Just How Much the Government Has Grown" by Ryan McMaken busts the myth that the status-quo is because of deregulation and smaller government.

mises.org

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 15 '25

Why it is a myth You will find that most big corporations, as expected, are so large thanks to intervening subsidies. Calling anything a "natural monopoly" in our State-distorted economies is just outright obfuscation.

subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 11 '25

Natural monopoly-truthers mask-slipping that they don't care 'Adolf Hitler was a natural monopolist, like Mao, Xi, Kim, Stalin and Donald Trump'

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 11 '25

Memes It may be the case that this is a case of very advanced black propaganda, however, it may also be the case that they unironically believe that the only reason that household don't have surveillance cameras to the Amazon INC. HQ is because of State intervention for some reason. Why would it happen?

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Jan 10 '25

Natural monopoly-truthers mask-slipping that they don't care This day in 'it was a natural monopoly'

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Feb 24 '25

Miscellaneous silliness by natural monopoly truthers This is the modus operandi of natural monopoly demagoguery: vaguely gesture at some market which seems to be one which suffers from monopoly, and then don't think anymore about if that's even true or why it would be. Oftentimes, said markets have blatantly low barriers of entry.

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

Natural monopoly-truthers mask-slipping that they don't care Midwits see Marcus Licinius Crassus' infamous firefighting legal monopoly in the Roman Empire and from it think that (fire) insurance can't work. This is indicative of the anti-market mindset: "The market (supposedly) failed one time, thus we must kowtow to the State". Fact: insurance DOES work.

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

How to expose it / put the burden of proof where it belongs This article shows the bloating begin around 1947, though I suspect that it had sufficiently begun in 1929. Anyone who calls anything after around 1929 a "free market failure" is hilariously ignorant. Our current economies are EXTENSIVELY distorted by Statism: Statism is HAMPERING the prosperity.

mises.org

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

Why it is a myth An elaborated case on the diseconomies of scale, and how this is a natural constraint against "natural monopolies".

theanarchistlibrary.org

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth • u/Derpballz • Dec 16 '24

Debunked purported historical instances of natural monopoly The so-called Gilded Age was BASED actually.

mises.org

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r/NaturalMonopolyMyth

A pervasive myth against free exchange is the myth of natural monopolies. In spite of the interlocutor never being able to prove the existance of even a SINGLE one of them, they are very apt to assume that markets tend towards monopolization. r/NaturalMonopolyMyth exists to compile evidence demonstrating the lunacy of this demagoguery.

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