Only a bigger monopoly can destroy a smaller local monopoly
Evidence
And the swarm of mosquitoes — born from the ashes of the blood-drinking monster — flew off into the world. And they carried with them the monster’s old craving: the hunger for the blood of human beings. … The lesson, the storytellers say with a rueful smile as they slap at a mosquito, is partly just a clever and funny explanation for why these annoying insects exist and why they crave our blood — but it carries also a deeper, wiser note: that great evils, even when defeated, are not always so easily disposed of; that in destroying a great harm, we may accidentally scatter it into many small ones; and that some troubles, once loosed upon the world, can never be entirely gotten rid of, but must simply be endured. — , A Year of World Stories, 10132 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Defeating a great evil can merely disperse it into many smaller persistent ones — , A Year of World Stories, 10132; Customers exercise more protection-market choice where the monopoly is insecure; Monopoly rent discounts the future in favor of the past — Kean Birch, Rethinking Value in the Bio-economy:…, 62
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Broader Connections
- Defeating a great evil can merely disperse it into many smaller persistent ones
#exemplifies(0.85) — , A Year of World Stories, 10132