Monopolies are usually deemed illegal by what they do with that position and not how they got there. It’s things like leveraging your monopoly to gain undue advantage preventing competition to arise in the first place.
One should also consider if services and goods provided by a „natural” monopoly (like over a limited resource) wouldn’t be better handled by either a state monopoly or a regulated industry consortium.
I’m happy that Gabe Newell won a lottery and was awarded billions of dollars along with it, good on him since that was his second lottery win after being an OG Microsoft employee with stock options. Does it mean he has to be awarded billions of dollars forever in perpetuity? Maybe more of the 30% cut should go to the people that actually make games today?
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Yes it is one. But it got there naturally, so it isn’t illegal.
Monopolies are usually deemed illegal by what they do with that position and not how they got there. It’s things like leveraging your monopoly to gain undue advantage preventing competition to arise in the first place.
One should also consider if services and goods provided by a „natural” monopoly (like over a limited resource) wouldn’t be better handled by either a state monopoly or a regulated industry consortium.
I’m happy that Gabe Newell won a lottery and was awarded billions of dollars along with it, good on him since that was his second lottery win after being an OG Microsoft employee with stock options. Does it mean he has to be awarded billions of dollars forever in perpetuity? Maybe more of the 30% cut should go to the people that actually make games today?