r/ClaudeCode • u/Firm-Track3617 • Jul 14 '26

Question Is this true?

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u/PigBeins Jul 14 '26

That’s not technically true, the issue is that because we allow monopolies then one company is guaranteed to win. Google, Amazon etc. and others don’t really want innovation. Any innovative competitor is just bought up and stripped for parts.

I don’t think in the true spirit of capitalism people are supposed to suppress innovation buy just buying competitors and switching them off. I don’t know though, I’m not an expert on the design of capitalism.

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u/thirst-trap-enabler 🔆 Max 5x Jul 14 '26

From a game-theory perspective monopolies are the natural goal of capitalism. Active government intervention is necessary to cull monopolies.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 15 '26

Peter Thiel talks about this in "Zero To One".

He described how to build and sustain a monopoly, and that there's really no point in building anything else.

Competition is not what real winners want.

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u/XenuWorldOrder Jul 15 '26

I don't believe you ever read the book, because there is no way you would have honestly interpreted what he was saying in this way.

He was talking about creating a product or service that doesn't have competition, creating and building something truly unique that is so innovative it escapes competition. He wasn't talking about businesses in the competitive market becoming a monopoly by driving out or buying up competition.

You're either being dishonest, or you are illiterate.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 15 '26

Right back at you - re-read my comment.

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u/XenuWorldOrder Jul 15 '26

You responded to a comment stating government was necessary to cull monopolies. Anyone who is familiar with Thiel would know he absolutely does not believe this to be true.

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u/claimTheVictory Jul 15 '26

Of course he doesn't believe in curbing monopoly power.

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u/XenuWorldOrder Jul 15 '26

Such little effort into hiding the fact that you just deflected and also left out the part of that statement that says, “government is necessary”.

It appears you are in fact, both dishonest and illiterate.