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human
ELI5:Why don't drug cartels, street gangs and other criminal groups just merge instead of competing?

It seems like a monopoly is best, because you can control the prices of whatever illegal stuff you're selling, and there's no inter-group violence. Aren't antitrust laws the only reason competing corporations don't all just merge into monopolies? Why don't organized crime syndicates do it?
gpt
You may as well ask why everyone everywhere doesn't get a long.

They aren't in it for anything but the money, and sharing that money with someone else is not appealing.  Basically the various gangs and cartels could never stick together long enough to make this work.  They'd stab each other in the back and go back to the way things are.