Who would fund you if you said you wanted to be a competitor? A competitor would need to avoid being bought by one of the tech oligarchs. That's pretty hard t

Who would fund you if you said you wanted to be a competitor? A competitor would need to avoid being bought by one of the tech oligarchs. That's pretty hard to avoid. If by some fluke, you find a breakout opportunity, you would need to somehow avoid getting crushed like Parler. The tech oligarchs will use any excuse to crush any competition. That episode basically shows that to compete you would basically need to build your own internet first, and also your own banking system.