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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The governor of California is way more powerful than the governor of Wyoming.

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