How do you prevent monopolies? It is what businesses want, history tells us.
How outrageously large a monopoly rent can your cartel extract? That's about how much profit a new entrant or cartel defector could make by undercutting the cartel. Why isn't that every venture capitalist's wet dream? Barrier to entry by criminals, whether "private" or "public".
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Except that barrier to entry is never zero and it will be very much in the interest of the cartel to keep new enteants out (or defectors in) even if it will be at the short sacrifice of some profit.
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The only way to prevent defection or new entrants is to not have outrageous large monopoly rent. Or to have government issue regulations (in the name of "fair" competition, of course). Or to be racketeering gangsters without the "government" hypocrisy and brainwashed supporters.
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