Student Worksheet

Local water utilities operate as textbook monopolies because building a second set of pipes across a city costs far more than any rival could justify, an example of a natural monopoly holding its ground through infrastructure alone. It ties that case to a pharmaceutical patent that lets a company price a life-saving drug above cost, and warns that either kind of monopoly can end up concentrating wealth and power in very few hands.

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