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seanflyon on Oct 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future

> takes advantage of an opportunity no one else did

Sounds like a reasonable definition of progress.

ThomPete on Oct 10, 2014 [–]

That doesn't mean that the monopoly drives it and there are plenty of examples of monopolies hindering it.

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