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Competition that removes differentiation makes everyone worse off, because it assumes people already know what they want.

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  1. Rory Sutherland

    Rory Sutherland is vice chairman of Ogilvy UK

    economists have this fantasy of the world of companies in direct competition driving down price and increasing efficiency while supplying the same thing which is based on a false premise that people know what they want to begin with. Now I would argue when you don't create differentiation, everybody suffers.

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