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That would make all new business illegal, as you operate at a loss for multiple years.



At some point it needs to be illegal. When a large company of 30000 employees starts wiping out entire industries with cash buffers, you can see why this is just wrong and monopolistic/oligopolistic behavior.


The problem with this is that would make virtually all of silicon valley start ups illegal.

In terms of loss, the actual hardware is profitable as far as I've heard.


There's a large difference between using your profits to crush competition in another area, versus setting dollar bills on fire in the pursuit of growth.

There should be regulations around both of these, but they'll need to be different ones.




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