{"id":111,"date":"2009-06-12T09:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/the-perils-of-monopolistic-approach-to-doing-business\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:06:59","slug":"the-perils-of-monopolistic-approach-to-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/the-perils-of-monopolistic-approach-to-doing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of monopolistic approach to doing business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anything that I do, someone else might do better, faster, cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, I am bound to be matched within 95% by someone who is seeking the same opportunities, has similar ambitions and is driven by similar or a competing cultural background.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a law of the nature.<\/p>\n<p>People think alike, often mimic, attempt to do better at things they perceive as interesting. Since the time of the caves, artists who drew on the walls &#8211; <em>often using animal dung for paint<\/em> &#8211; set an example for others to either simply follow or attempt to surpass.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s global economy, progress arises from competition, for a simple reason: when all goals are created equal, choice and interest in a product or service become flat. When all that one could wear in the former USSR was brown and khaki jackets made of rough threaded material, everything came from a single source of production: that of a monopolistic, government facility.<\/p>\n<p>Monopolies are bad for the basic human instinct of being different.<\/p>\n<p>Although we can get used to uniformity, we do not accept it. Humans want choices, different ways of doing the same thing, different views of the same image. It&#8217;s the way the human brain functions and becomes stimulated and consequently evolves. It&#8217;s how we have left the caves and built homes and skyscrapers, turned cooking into an art and how trading via a handshake became e-shopping.<\/p>\n<p>In a world that has somehow united under the hood of a global network, monopolies isolate our humanity, destroy the intricate need for satisfying our various senses and turn us into robot citizens from the movie &#8220;Metropolis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And that alone, can be a truly devastating experience.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2009 Acro.net &#8211; An Acroplex LLC publication &#8211; All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything that I do, someone else might do better, faster, cheaper. Or, at least, I am bound to be matched within 95% by someone who is seeking the same opportunities, has similar ambitions and is driven by similar or a competing cultural background. It&#8217;s a law of the nature. 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