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This is bad for the economy, however, because it limits overall production.



No, it doesn't: if there's that much demand for the company's products, someone else can start a competing company making the same products, presumably for less because with a monopoly supplier, prices will usually be very high. Of course, this doesn't work for cases where supply is artificially constrained (like products with IP protection), or if the communist government doesn't allow competing companies to start.




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