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's Upside Decay has thoroughly infiltrated my worldview: brianlui.dog/2020/10/06/ups See, for instance:

Tech recruiters struggled for years to get people to leave Facebook. Now they say there's an exodus...

Long considered one of the best places to work, Facebook has lost some of its cachet through scandals and aging technology, recruiters say.

Cedric Chin

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Implication: the best kind of business to run is a monopoly that either nobody cares about or everybody loves.

4:11 AM · Nov 15, 2021Twitter Web App

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Are there examples of monopolies that everyone loves? I feel that monopolies drive profits that almost intrinsically attract ire.

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TSMC, ASML? Definitely more examples of 'monopolies that nobody cares about' — like 'that one business that makes the machines that makes all the whisky bottles in the world', which, LOL.

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