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The one advantage of monopolies is that they tend the commons.
by iNic 8mo ago
The one advantage of monopolies is that they tend the commons.
- uyzstvqs 8mo agoYou're free to start your own space exploration company.
- dmd 8mo agoEr, no, you're not. That's the big problem with monopolies that execute regulatory capture.
- atonse 8mo agoSure you are. SpaceX did exactly this and went against the well-connected monopoly at the time (ULA, a consortium of defense contractors) and beat it. Nobody said it would be easy though.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoYou too can start your own space exploration company if you are lucky enough to somehow obtain capital and your luck compounds sufficiently from that capital. That luck is out of grasp of the vast majority of the population. It isn't a matter of effort, but mostly luck. Playing the lottery is not a realistic strategy to put forth from a monopoly competition perspective. 90% of startups fail, for example. They worked hard, but were unlucky.