Comment by vixen99

That's a bit savage. Did Apple look for unfair advantages or did they design products that people loved and bought in preference to others? Ditto many other industries. Traders (capitalists) should indeed look for monopolies if they don't want a race to the bottom but that monopoly can be based on unique value to the customer if crony capitalism isn't involved although sadly it's all too prevalent. Markets are dynamic. Conditions change. People's needs and desires change. The monopoly of today will eventually dissolve and at best become one of many equivalent options, tomorrow. That's one of the messages of zero to one, Peter Thiel's recent book.