It might just be a matter of framing, but I do not understand: How could you ever do anything work related, void of competition for any significant stretch of t

It might just be a matter of framing, but I do not understand: How could you ever do anything work related, void of competition for any significant stretch of time? Even if you create or exploit something wildly new that is completely beyond reach for anyone else at that moment – let's say you made time travel viable tomorrow – as soon as you did and started commercialising it, competition would start forming later that day. For everything else, you will right off the gate be competing with someone over something (at the very least time and money). Airbnb is competing with Hotels/Motels, Uber with Taxis, Facebook with MySpace. MySpace with more specialised communities and GeoCities. The internet was competing with telephones, mail, fax and the yellow pages. Can you elaborate?