Show me an example of an unregulated coercive monopoly whose source of monopoly power is not ultimately the government.
At 05:35 PM 10/1/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
The Mafia. The handful of world-class coke dealers. Your local church
In america the various mafias get plently of competition, mostly by means short of actual warfare. Coke is a free market except for police intervention, and the local church is most certainly not a monopoly. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG oGREc6gOTKaJiYcMP+JEyW9SUvzFpjz79BkXyfAM 4f+hqTPS/vPcpcTNefkMrftiYGG7rMXSAonNu7im6 ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald