[rightbyte]

> Profit simply means other people find it valuable enough to compensate you to use whatever you’ve made.

In the spherical cow in vacuum market maybe. In practice there is rent seeking, profiteering, corruption, nepotism, etc ...

[tsunamifury]

Late stage yes. But design has created the most valuable and profitable products and companies in the world.

Apple Ferrari Google Porsche Smaller companies like Yeti or Braun Etc etc

Once they use design to achieve dominance yes they do the rent seeking you are talking about.

[rhetocj23]

Monopoly profits are the allure of innovation. Its the same reason those life-saving medicines get developed (patents).

Why is this a bad thing? Personally Id rather have an Apple monopoly than MSFT for instance. I really love using my Apple products. I never enjoyed using a single MSFT product.

[red-iron-pine]

u/rhetocj23 is a one day old account made of random characters that is actively advocating for an Apple monopoly and talking shit about MSFT in multiple posts.

remember folks 20-40% of social media is bots -- this is just a low-hanging fruit

[rhetocj23]

you sound like a cry baby.