alt Hacker News>This is the reason that businesses don't try to monopolize the food industry. It's not competition as we just saw from the egg industry. The government gets pushed back from the masses pretty quickly on food related issues.
But you provided your own counterexample with eggs?
Note they didn't monopolize it, so I guess that was correct. They did form a cartel that did cause a lot of political issues, and if we had a functioning government would have been a very risky bet.