This is bizarre. Not for wrongness -- but because it is baffling that what is right about it should not be obvious and taken for granted.
Business is always, and has always been, about avoiding competition. One can start by recalling Adam Smith's comment on any gathering of industrialists inevitably leading to conspiracy against the public. Then simply look at what any business does or tries to do, legal or otherwise -- what is a patent, for example?
Competition between business is supposed to be good for the public, not the competitors themselves -- hence business always wanting to avoid it. Competition is, broadly, destructive. It is only worth it because of other effects (spurring effort, creativity), and when it is limited and substantially supported by other cooperative systems.
Business is always, and has always been, about avoiding competition. One can start by recalling Adam Smith's comment on any gathering of industrialists inevitably leading to conspiracy against the public. Then simply look at what any business does or tries to do, legal or otherwise -- what is a patent, for example?
Competition between business is supposed to be good for the public, not the competitors themselves -- hence business always wanting to avoid it. Competition is, broadly, destructive. It is only worth it because of other effects (spurring effort, creativity), and when it is limited and substantially supported by other cooperative systems.