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andrewljohnson
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People use the word monopoly very casually and rhetorically, but never correctly.
lacker
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I blame the board game Monopoly. You get Board Walk and Park Place, and they call it a monopoly. Linguistic injustice!
panacea
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Surely there's room to redefine the 'pure' definition of monopoly to include relative hegemony. No? Well that's how it's being used.
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