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The meat packets and agribusiness are definitely monopolies. Beef prices at the store are at prices so high people can't afford it yet the producers aren't getting good prices and can't risk expanding their herds. The packers in the middle are sucking up all the profits because there is little competition.

I’m in like Pennsylvania Avenue or Park Place on the Monopoly Board. Not Boardwalk, but from this side of the board, life ain’t bad.

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Yes, remember during Covid when locally owned businesses were forced to shut down, but the big box stores could stay open?

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The meat packets and agribusiness are definitely monopolies. Beef prices at the store are at prices so high people can't afford it yet the producers aren't getting good prices and can't risk expanding their herds. The packers in the middle are sucking up all the profits because there is little competition.

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Beef is high right now because of the last drought we had. Less hay was able to grow, therefore, the ranchers had to cut their livestock numbers back. The lower numbers hit the market and now we must wait on more cows to grow.

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I’m in like Pennsylvania Avenue or Park Place on the Monopoly Board.

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Rookie. The real ones know you make your nut with orange and red.

In general a monopoly is not good but that doesn't mean all monopolies are bad. Standard Oil was a pretty good monopoly and actually resulted in price decreases for kerosene among other benefits.

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This right here

Discredits everything you typed subsequently.

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food industry, pharma, big banking, insurance, health, of course oil. They all are making record profits and strangling the disappearing middle class.

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Spend their money on labeling anyone that really threatens the shareholders bottom lines whether through monopoly, oligopoly, corporatism, crony capitalism or profitable mixes of them as anti-American or socialist.

Economic theory hasn't changed and quite honestly what you are seeing today is a proliferation of one the basics of economic theory, economies of scale. As the nation/world became less regionalized and goods began moving across the globe, scale in both buying power/cashflow and logistics, proved to be the most effective way to make goods still affordable as costs of goods continually rise.

Smaller companies struggle to maintain readily available cash to be able to pay for increased costs of goods and services and therefore either have to sellout to the bigger guys or be stuck without a great path of growth. Some small companies maybe okay without growth, but ultimately if it's a family business, families tend to grow and there isn't as much money to go around. Its the 3rd generation problem most family businesses face. In the world of logistics/distribution, we are now in the 3rd and 4th generations of family companies.