[aurareturn]

Monopolies are natural in highly technical industries. But monopolies don't last forever. New technologies wipe out monopolies all the time. ChatGPT is disrupting Google search monopoly. Solar/EV is disrupting oil. Tools like V0 is disrupting Figma. ChatGPT itself is disrupting iOS and Android. The list goes on and on and on.

[Wilder7977]

You are mixing industry and company. LLMs are overtaking Google search (I.e., internet search which is a monopoly), but it doesn't have to be chatGPT (I.e. openAI).

In any case, it's irrelevant they are not eternal (especially if we go from monopoly to monopoly), the point stands: if you have a monopoly you don't have freedom and free market doesn't work at all.

[danso]

“Solar/EV is disrupting oil” — where exactly has solar/EVs disrupted oil without the benefit of (wise, IMO) government intervention and subsidies?