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Tim Tyler's avatar

It is true that while a government might have a monopoly locally, there is still competition between governments. A problem there is that such competition is a slow process - leaving the door open for governments to enslave and exploit their citizens in the mean time. To avoid going off the rails at the hands of a greedy dictator, many countries have within-government competition - with rival political parties. Part of the idea is to limit the scale and duration of the monopoly power of the government - and so avoid negative evolutionary trajectories and bloody revolutions. As Robin notes, many people hate the idea of a monopolist ruling party exploiting them as much as possible in order to to enrich themselves. If the hatred of the population is too high, then there's a revolution and a new political system is installed.

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Troy's avatar

He was saying customers can move around.

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