How do you win at monopoly?

The winner of the board game "Monopoly" can only win if all other players are broke and "out of the game"

Winner takes all.

It's not good business to "help your competitors"

In fact, your shareholders can sue you for violating your fiduciary duty to them if you do so.

Thus, monopolies and oligopolies and increasing market concentration are absolute inevitabilities.

Of course a company wants to buy their competitors.

Of course a company wants to form a cartel with their competitors to engage in price-setting.

While Leverage, Not Labor: Why High Beef Prices and Struggling Ranchers Coexist offers some good suggestions in the "key reforms" section, I would argue that these are surface-level band-aids to alleviate the problems caused by the core incentives of a system that optimizes for profits rather than for flourishing of society.

If you optimize for exchange-value, you'll get higher exchange-values, the rich will get richer, and the little ranchers will be ruined.

If you instead optimize for use-value, you'll get deflation, affordability, and a flourishing middle class.

A Patriot economy necessarily violates the rules of free trade and competition, since free trade and competition inevitably lead to monopolies, where one mega corporation owns everything, including the politicians through bribery.