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Monopoly always wins.
Did you know horses were the only way to move around before cars?
Did you know the US airline industry, and AT&T phone system were a monopoly situation?
Do you remember when Dropbox, Docker were the only product that filled their niche spot?
So, no, monopoly does not always win.
Of course I remember. There is no too big to fail, too.
But that does not mean it's not getting replaced by another one. That's also a pattern. Or maybe the meta game changes, someone else has money and invests and holds a lot of smaller players. Still.
For docker it would be Kubernetes and that's Google.
Well, we have like 3 decades at most of this kind of tech, and really only a couple of generations modern capitalism, so it's a bit tough to say "always" about anything. It would be more accurate, historically, to say that the monarchy always wins - but especially in that case - past performance does not guarantee future returns.
That's fair - let's say since industrialization. But you're right, it's few people whatever the current implementation is (monarchy, oligarchy..)