That is a false assumption. Monopolies are only possible with government protection, because bureaucratic bloat kills them. With regulation, we get cartels and regulatory capture. Freedom is not a bogeyman and markets trend to equilibrium absent state intervention and force
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There is no such thing as a market that's free of state intervention and force. Your imagined trend toward equilibrium is nothing but a dream.
200 years ago, people thought there was no such thing as an economy free of chattel slavery. You are not really making any arguments aside from appeals to the status quo.
200 years ago, most of the world had already outlawed chattel slavery.