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Monopolies make sense when building up infrastructure. But after a certain period of time, the company blessed by the government as a monopoly should be dismant
by omouse 18y ago
Monopolies make sense when building up infrastructure. But after a certain period of time, the company blessed by the government as a monopoly should be dismantled or broken into smaller competing companies. Otherwise the companies, as you said, take advantage.
- ojbyrne 18y agoI agree. I think they have a problem with that "after a certain period of time" - perhaps because of lobbyists.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoLike the military coups in Latin America that said they'd only be in power "for a certain period of time" until democracy is restored.
- gcv 18y agoKind of unfair to the company which invested the resources into building the infrastructure, isn't it? I agree monopolies cause problems, but I personally would be upset if I invested tremendous resources into something and then was told that I must give access to all these others who profit from my investment.
- r7000 18y agoIn this case however the building and maintenance of the infrastructure was and is heavily subsidized by Canadian taxpayers. As well the monopolies are not the sole private contributers.
- one1plus1one 18y agoWell, although Bell was broken up into many "smaller" pieces, those pieces appear to be simply re-merging, and re-congealing back together again, slowly but surely. I suppose the initial break-up however is good, and would stimulate a more competitive environment, and allow new start-ups to join the game. But eventually those pieces are simply drawn back together again... It's like when you break a magnet into many pieces -- they reattract back together.