If you want to maintain a libertarian approach, the thing to do would be to investigate in what way the monopolists’ market position is due to government intervention.
This is true if “wanting to maintain a libertarian approach” is already a goal but wouldn’t it be better epistemics to investigate the cause monopolists market position without the already fixed opinion that it will be due to government intervention? Having that as a strong prior is fine of course but not something you “want” to be true.
I see how the wording of that sentence could be interpreted that way. Wasn’t my intention; by “in what way” I meant to encompass “to what degree”, and the answer could be “to a small or negligible degree”. I’ll note that in the next sentence I say “if the obstacles come from government intervention”, and again “If they do” in the sentence after that.
This is true if “wanting to maintain a libertarian approach” is already a goal but wouldn’t it be better epistemics to investigate the cause monopolists market position without the already fixed opinion that it will be due to government intervention? Having that as a strong prior is fine of course but not something you “want” to be true.
I see how the wording of that sentence could be interpreted that way. Wasn’t my intention; by “in what way” I meant to encompass “to what degree”, and the answer could be “to a small or negligible degree”. I’ll note that in the next sentence I say “if the obstacles come from government intervention”, and again “If they do” in the sentence after that.