As expected, people will ”hot take” this simple and truthful tweet to death with Shalaye.

Yes, this is true about Dangote and that means he is smart and not otherwise. Free markets are not about virtue but heavy competition and attrition. A wise monopolist sensibly avoids it. https://twitter.com/honilatte/status/1346528328199630851

Many in tech stupidly think it is about how smart they are rather than how much of the market they can corner and build moats around.

Eric Schmidt once said that the effect of AI would be deep specialization and 80% market share models. Effective tech is about creating monopoly

I never try to compete. I am usually a pioneer that others follow or a monopolist. That is the only way it makes sense. There are no points given for suffering from the onslaught of competition.

I would rather give it away and look for something more rewarding to do instead.

A ”free market” is not free. You pay for it with profit and stress.