People fail to understand the difference between innovation driven monopoly and government enforced monopoly.<p>The former is commendable, indicating that a company has developed a product so useful that it becomes so widely adopted as to become a monopoly. Nobody is forced to buy the product - people just find it so useful that the it dominates in the marketplace. And there is nothing preventing the rise of a competitor other than the monopolist&#x27;s success. Got enough smarts and money to beat them? Then go for it.<p>That&#x27;s quite different than when a company uses regulatory capture to get regulations passed that maintain their monopoly and block competitors.