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Garbage collection functions as a natural monopoly

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Having five different competing trash trucks driving down the exact same street every morning is comically inefficient. Some services are so highly dependent on vast physical routes that letting one single massive entity control everything is actually the only mathematical option.

Garbage collection functions as a natural monopoly
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