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> Give incentives for people to produce.

Even in US there is only one Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. It seems like these global monopolies are a new phenomenon that requires to rethink past economic ideas.



Is this new ? USA split Rockefeller empire which was unbelievably huge too.


Yes, it is new because it is global, Rockefeller was a local phenomenon. Before you have monopolies per country and now these monopolies (or call them as you want) are centralized in US.




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