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On Thu, 23 May 2024 21:51:57 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

> You can't have a monopoly on your own product. If that were the case
> then Harley Davidson has a "monopoly" on Sportsters and McDonalds has a
> "monopoly"
> on Big Macs.

Harley tried...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_motorcycle_tariff

The tariff game came back to bite them a few years ago,

https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/harley-
tariff-trend-setter-not-good-way

One organization that definitely is a monopoly is the government, any 
government, although the US government has been expanding its monopoly 
since before the ink was dry on the Constitution.

Disclaimer: I ride a Sportster. Its stable mates are two Suzukis and prior 
to that it shared duties with a Yamaha. Like OSs they each have different 
strengths and I use the one best suited for the task at hand.