alt Hacker NewsPower, natural gas, gasoline, water, mobile contracts, railways, internet access are probably better analogies. They have tendencies to (local) monopolies but also a lot of precedent and knowledge on how to regulate and break them, how to introduce competition.
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soperj • today at 4:00 PM
they broke up Ma Bell, but they've never done anything about the internet access. Mobile is an oligopoly.
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I don't think so. You can't practically buy electricity from halfway across the planet but you can buy tokens. There's no local infrastructure to monopolise.