Peter Thiel, smug in his intellectual trench coat, whispers that monopolies do innovation better.

But history doesn’t whisper back—it roars. Look at AT&T, fat and comfortable in its monopoly, a static beast. No spark, no fire, just the dull hum of a machine that stopped caring. Progress flatlined. The telephone became a fossil before anyone noticed.

Then there's Google. The king of search. A monopoly draped in algorithms and ad dollars. A decade ago, it could show you the world in a search box. Now? It serves you what it wants you to see. Not answers. Ads. Not clarity. Noise. The engine isn't searching anymore—it's stalling, running on the fumes of past glory.

And here comes the irony, dripping like a leaky faucet. It's only when OpenAI steps into the ring, swinging a new idea, a fresh perspective—a real threat—that Google starts to twitch. Suddenly, the sleeping giant wakes up. Competition, not monopoly, lights the fuse. The so-called innovator needs a rival to remember how to innovate.

Monopolies don’t do innovation better. They rot in their own certainty, blind to the world they refuse to change. It’s the fight, the pressure, the fear of losing it all, that breeds something new.

Without that, all they build is stagnation.

S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Jan 12, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1878238640704544954?t=xF0UCC8JhIaFY7XMRJmExg&s=19

https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2503