Until they become a shareholder: investors love monopolies’s biggest moats.
cp destructive extraction / rent-seeking from privatised rail and water monopolies. (GWR, Wessex Water)
cf strategic goal of token diversification of ownership through de minimis IPOs (Nigerian billionaire’s refinery Dangote “The IPO for the People”, Aliko Dangote Foundation offering free shares to eligible students and women), amplified with desire to protect asset by including pan-African retail investors. cp Abramovich, Sawiris.
cf fairness of natural monopolies such as public utilities being in public ownership (EWZ, SWEB,