Comment by mapt
8 days ago
Investors love a monopoly, and establishing this required more than a trillion dollars of investment sustained over a couple decades.
8 days ago
Investors love a monopoly, and establishing this required more than a trillion dollars of investment sustained over a couple decades.
> Investors love a monopoly...
Indeed, investors left to their own devices act in this way. Underlying such a single point-of-failure is an implied but immense hope and thus pressure for stability. I wonder what the prediction markets saying about current levels of geopolitical stability in Taiwan?
> Indeed, investors left to their own devices act in this way.
Interesting. Capitalism is often touted to be more decentralized than socialism, but this is an example of how it can centralize.
Socialism is always talked out how it works out in practice, capitalism is talked about how it works out in theory
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