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When it comes to cultural changes I've had this big question on my mind about the current state of competition in our market society.
So, is competition in our current market dead? And if so what happened?
To start the reason why I'm asking has to do with my general disenfranchisement of our current market. Now for some history, it's interesting to see how firms and companies did actually try to compete with each other. Like how you see the apple vs. Microsoft ads but what exactly happened to that? I was always under the premise that a capitalist free market system, would harness the Darwinistic character of fitness and being the best. But all I see nowadays are these massive companies doing some of the most embarrassing decisions in my life but why? Why don't they WANT to make something better? There's almost this sort of new attitude of no competition but we're just friends. So instead of direct competition, it's more like a weird cold war where companies want to make something better but they also don't care to do so because why should they?
The problem I largely have is that I don't think companies have to suck or be bad but the lack of competition can really let the companies we hate abuse their power and not focus on being better than another company which is a shame.
I personally have my own theories and this issue is surprisingly complex. In short, I think this has more to do with how we're economically living in a monopolistic competitive era. High barriers to entry, and nonprice competition.
I've always wanted to ask this since joining too since I find that competition was noticeably stronger in past decades. But I could be wrong.
Basically, I just miss stuff like this
View: https://youtu.be/0eEG5LVXdKo
So, is competition in our current market dead? And if so what happened?
To start the reason why I'm asking has to do with my general disenfranchisement of our current market. Now for some history, it's interesting to see how firms and companies did actually try to compete with each other. Like how you see the apple vs. Microsoft ads but what exactly happened to that? I was always under the premise that a capitalist free market system, would harness the Darwinistic character of fitness and being the best. But all I see nowadays are these massive companies doing some of the most embarrassing decisions in my life but why? Why don't they WANT to make something better? There's almost this sort of new attitude of no competition but we're just friends. So instead of direct competition, it's more like a weird cold war where companies want to make something better but they also don't care to do so because why should they?
The problem I largely have is that I don't think companies have to suck or be bad but the lack of competition can really let the companies we hate abuse their power and not focus on being better than another company which is a shame.
I personally have my own theories and this issue is surprisingly complex. In short, I think this has more to do with how we're economically living in a monopolistic competitive era. High barriers to entry, and nonprice competition.
I've always wanted to ask this since joining too since I find that competition was noticeably stronger in past decades. But I could be wrong.
Basically, I just miss stuff like this
View: https://youtu.be/0eEG5LVXdKo
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