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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoPeter Thiel’s “Zero to One” teaches that the best business is an iron-fisted monopoly. Far from cutting you in, the governor is more likely to break your kneecaps and burn down your nascent storefront.
minus-squarechonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoPeter Thiel may have been successful in business but he’s no economist. For a government official like the governor, there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition than suppressing it.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition But governors aren’t in it for simple numerical wealth. They’re in it for power.
Peter Thiel’s “Zero to One” teaches that the best business is an iron-fisted monopoly.
Far from cutting you in, the governor is more likely to break your kneecaps and burn down your nascent storefront.
Peter Thiel may have been successful in business but he’s no economist. For a government official like the governor, there’s way more wealth to be gained by encouraging competition than suppressing it.
But governors aren’t in it for simple numerical wealth. They’re in it for power.