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> might be generous and foster innovation during their growth stages, but then become extractive and limit innovation in later stages.

Winner-takes-all is something like a law of nature.

While I'm very pro-competition, trust busting (anti-monopoly), and nurturing young small businesses...

I suspect that churn matters. Innovation and creativity requires the Powers That Be give the old ant farm a good shaking every few years.

I have no idea what that'd look like. The only historical analogy I have are Debt Jubilees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_jubilee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)

Said another way...

I'd be fine with maximally rights granting patents, all but sovereign corporate charters, and other final boss economic and political arrangements, provided that it all gets burned down every 7 years.

The water bowl a good oxygenation for the gold fish to thrive.



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