Episode 248: What is a Monopoly and How Does it Work?
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 30 seconds. |
| 0:01.0 | One time for the under down. |
| 0:04.0 | Ignition sequence star. |
| 0:07.0 | Let me see you put them up. |
| 0:09.0 | Reach the skies, let the stars up above because it's one time for the underdog one time for the underdog |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Patrick Bedevi host of Aitainment and today we're gonna talk about an old |
| 0:20.6 | school game that we all used to play with our friends and family and that is monopoly. |
| 0:24.4 | But the question is, what is a monopoly and how does it work? |
| 0:27.6 | I'm not talking about our buddy named Uncle Pennybags who we play the game and we roll the dice and you hope to land on boardwalk and |
| 0:37.0 | You know pass go and collect $200 and not go to jail and we're not talking about that game today. We're talking about real life monopoly. |
| 0:44.6 | Three things cause a monopoly to happen. One, only one firm sells the product. There's only |
| 0:51.6 | one firm that sells the product. There's only one firm that sells the product. |
| 0:53.0 | Two, two, there is a very difficult barrier of entry |
| 0:58.0 | meaning the government's created so many regulations and licensing for you to get in that it makes it tougher for a smaller business to go in and compete with the bigger business. |
| 1:07.0 | If there's too many regulations, too many laws, very difficult for the smaller business to compete with the bigger business. |
| 1:13.0 | Three is there's no close substitute. |
| 1:16.0 | So close substitute could be, I have a choice between buying a car, |
| 1:21.0 | but there's motorcycles. |
| 1:22.0 | If a car is sold for $100,000, then there's a motorcycle, then there's a bicycle, then there's a |
| 1:26.0 | bicycle, I have a close substitute. |
| 1:28.4 | So when you think about those three things, I'll give you a few examples, business-wise. |
| 1:32.2 | When Apple first came out with an iPhone, |
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