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Fair enough :) It would make communication easier if you put such creative uses of words up front. I'm not familiar with Peter Thiels use of the word 'unfair', but the doesn't get to creatively re-define the words we use either.

Unfair has a very negative connotation.

> And it's not like life has turned out badly for me in the meantime anyway. :-)

Excellent :)



Peter Thiel used the word 'unfair' as you would expect, in the context of saying that monopolies are successful for exactly the same reasons that they are unfair. And that, as a founder, people should be looking to build monopolies (which are unfair by definition).


"Unfair Advantage" compares to "Creative Destruction" that way. Neither mean what an un uninformed reading of the word pairings would suggest.




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