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Odd. You seem to be overjoyed at the possible birth of a monopoly situation?

I think your emotions and tribal instinct would be better served towards something more benign, like football or baseball ...

Lest your voting intentions become equally malignant.

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Perhaps they merely mean it's awesome to have one global satellite broadband service, and one semi-affordable launch option, instead of zero which is what we had before?

This part could have been phrased better in that case.

> It’s over. And IMO it’s awesome.

A more charitable interpretation would obviously be that the OP is very happy with the products and services that these companies build and provide and if the alternative is between this never happening and the companies becoming monopolies, at least in the short-term, they are OK with it.

More to it, monopolies eventually get broken up by regulations.

EU will step in eventually and regulate if it becomes too great of a concern, right now it's quiet because it hasn't reached critical mass yet.

Musk's empire is already being dismantled and the trend will continue, either by direct competition of laws.

You seem to have a lot of creativity in your judgements as none of this follows from his comment.

It's litterally the last sentence:

...any competitor. It’s over. And IMO it’s awesome.

Can you read this sentence and tell me how none of this follows from it?

> SpaceX and Starlink have the same owner, both are private companies, with SpaceX launching 80% of the global space payload last year and rising, and Starlink has a constellation two orders of magnitude bigger than any competitor. It’s over. And IMO it’s awesome.

It says: "It's a private monopoly, and IMO it's awesome"

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