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mapt | 14 days ago

Investors love a monopoly, and establishing this required more than a trillion dollars of investment sustained over a couple decades.

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xpe|14 days ago

> 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?

bit1993|14 days ago

> 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.