What free market advocates fail to accept is that an unregulated monopoly position, whether it was arrived at "fairly" or "unfairly", includes Big Brother, bureaucracy and whatever other malpractice is profitable, every time. Because the choice of whether to pay a price for mutually beneficial provision of goods and services is gone through whatever mechanism is sustaining the monopoly. The benefits of a market disappear; Participation is no longer voluntary. Monopolies are the worst combination of traits typically associated with corporate and government organizations.