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1) steel and rail are important for survival, and actual monopolies that result you being only able to get a necessary good or service from 1 seller

2) there are a billion different ways to entertain yourself, including spending time on HN. It matters very little to real life that there are 5 different places to stream expensive media compared to 6. If they get too expensive, you can watch youtube or tiktok or come back to HN or whatever else.

>>lotsof+(OP)
The pro-monopoly stance never ceases to amaze me. Competition is good, apparently, but multi-hundred-billion-dollar mergers are... also good? Make it make sense.

>>ventur+Ul
If you comprehend #2, you can see that it is not a pro monopoly stance.

Additionally, an anti monopoly stance for the purposes of buying a specific piece of content would be reducing copyright to 10 years.