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Having a Monopoly != Anti-Competitive.

Having Barriers to Entry != Anti-competitive

Yes, large players have advantages of Economies of Scale.

Just because you can't run an Airline because you don't have money to buy an Airplane isn't anti-competitive.

Today Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI, Google, Amazon all can afford those piddly $60m to license from reddit.

Not Anti-competitive at all.

But saddened by how much corporate-hate by HNers destroys their credibility in debating these thing.

Go ahead downvote

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If you check citations, you'd find the sentence preceding my excerpt on barriers to entry:

"Because barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict competition in a market, they can contribute to distortionary prices and are therefore most important when discussing antitrust policy."

Antitrust policy then links to a page on competition law: "Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies." [0]

So yes, I'd downvote you if I could, but HN doesn't allow downvotes - which is honestly pretty fitting in the context of this conversation.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law

Once again buying an Airplane and starting an Airline business has probably the highest barrier to entry. Yet the Airline industry is the most competitive.

The air travel industry has also seen some of the most significant government regulation in the form of blocking mergers (ie monopolistic, anticompetitive behavior) - meaning that competition in the airline space is due to regulation, not free market dynamics alone.

I’m happy to continue this debate if you’d like to start supporting your posts with citations but probably won’t engage further unless you do. Have a great day!

Hm. Chip fabrication?

I took care of the down vote for you. I dunno when the privilege is earned, but keep up the quality comments and you’ll be able to downvote incurious ideologues like this in no time!

HN Downvotes on non-engineering things are my badge of honor. It has rewarded very well financially

Btw you will be allowed to downvote once you hit a certain karma threshold

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