Are monopolies actually a good thing?

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A free society/market always selects against violence, and a monopoly on violence always grows in power (breeds violence).

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So long as there isnt any money to be made in it.

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War really isn't all that profitable for consumers, dude. Violence is highly profitable in poor regions, which have low defenses and few demands, but as the resources in the area increase, trade simply becomes a more effective way to get what you want. This phenomenon explains how barter markets evolved from Hobbesian anarchy; there were enough products in the system to make people have a low enough time preference to stop taking actions that would make other hostile toward them (and the advances in technology were making their hostility increaingly unfavorable)

No one wants war. It doesn't make you richer. As resources increase, there becomes less reason for war to exist. The only way they can still exist is if people are terrified into thinking they are being attacked and need to unite against East Asia, er, Iran.

Without the presence of war and violence, the government cannot convince people that it has any reason to exist.