You can still earn many times more by not price gauging one penny by virtue of no middle men. Monopolies effectively tax the most determined and most business savy individuals, and not some clowns or idiots trying to make cents by rising prices above market price, they tax those individuals because they reduce the redundancy proof of numerous suppliers born from competition, not collusion, which ultimately can drive them to increase the prices, or simply maintain them despite their overhead being significantly less than in a competitive environment.