While I agree with the ideas you are expressing, I just want to amend your opening:<p>&gt; If you give out monopolies, then this is what happens. Here&#x27;s a simple idea to fix this: COMPETITION.<p>Monopolies aren&#x27;t some market externality that only occur outside of capitalism (private ownership of the means of production).<p>Don&#x27;t mean to split semantic hairs, but I just don&#x27;t want to perpetuate the mainstream editorializing of &quot;capitalism&quot; into a buzz word meaning something akin to &quot;for private corporations&quot; and that privatization is always better for the market and society.