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by radicsge 3541 days ago
Yet if facebook would disappear, nothing would be lost. Somebody would overtake the position in no time. This is not true for real value added companies.
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By that logic, Ford produces no "[added] real value." It seems like only monopolies can add real value in your criteria.
Facebook is monopoly, yet they do not. Tesla, Canonical, Red Hat,AWS, National Geographic, Nikon etc etc.. is not monopoly, but they do have real added value.