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soulofmischief • today at 7:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I can show you many more examples of monopolies which did not produce PARC or Bell Labs than those which did. It's possible such research happened in spite of dominating the market, not because of it. Anyway, you cannot have both monopolies and strong regulators. These are incompatible situations. Monopolies occur because regulation doesn't exist or is captured.


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jyrkesh • today at 8:25 PM

> Anyway, you cannot have both monopolies and strong regulators...

> Monopolies occur because regulation doesn't exist or is captured.

IMO, the stronger the regulator, the stronger the incentive to capture it.

Unless by "strong" you mean "competent"?