Comment by cowsandmilk

9 hours ago

I like this quote from Dan Wang's 2025 letter:

> Part of the reason that China’s stock market trends sideways is that everyone’s profits are competed away. Big Tech might enjoy the monopolistic success smiled upon by Peter Thiel, coming almost to genteel agreements not to tread too hard upon each other’s business lines. Chinese firms have to fight it out in a rough-and-tumble environment, expanding all the time into each other’s core businesses, taking Jeff “your margin is my opportunity” Bezos with seriousness.

https://danwang.co/2025-letter/

Is that a fancy way of saying “communist” China has real, authentic capitalism and “capitalist” US has monopolies all over?