I feel like nationalized industries operate under different rules. They can make 100% of their production a loss if they so choose. The behavior isn’t quite like that of private monopolies. Although yes, it totally means companies are more consolidated.
Also punitive taxes on Superstores, perhaps? Although there’s no reason why chains can’t be small stores so I guess it might be debatable.
This is great although the problem there is that it’d presumably be really freaking hard to get rid of oligarchs once you have that situation, and if I understand you right, that’s not the case here. It’d just simply take a transition time where you have an oligarchy-like situation that fades out without further changes. Unless I’m missing something.
That’s a very interesting point!