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Exactly. When you are a monopoly power, especially in our times and coming decades, there is a high probability that innovation will stagnate and the focus and
by kumarvvr 5y ago
Exactly. When you are a monopoly power, especially in our times and coming decades, there is a high probability that innovation will stagnate and the focus and management will shift to extracting cash from the company's customers.
My contention is that the monopolies of the past had a long life. The monopolies of the future, will not be so fortunate and there will be someone else who will innovate better and creep up.
This shift, in my view, is because the industrial production base of the world, has become fragmented enough and optimized enough, that the capital and effort to innovate have come down.
- ip26 5y agoI tend to agree, although I would contend the shift is really due to market segments with short product cycles. With short product cycles, it doesn't take a that much calendar time for a monopoly to sputter.