The easier means here being though fair economic competition to acquire proprietary rights.

What about when a company establishes the type of monopoly like we see with Canada Post? It operates in a capitalist more-or-less free market and yet the government has imposed its coercive monopoly (its "crown" designation), thus free market competition is corrupted by government overreach. I suspect we agree is an affront on the individual.

I wonder if using/holding/transacting in Bitcoin, which has quickly surpassed the historical relevance of letter carrying, is seriously threatened by a similar coercive monopoly situation. ETFs, Microstrategy, and the semantic takeover risks seem to have a shot at this. Do you think people brainwashed enough for this to happen?