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Rhetorical: So now - what is Stage 3; once everyone has a railroad - then what?

• mywittyname 9y ago
  Buy trains.
• robotresearcher 9y ago
  The metaphor was broken. Stage 2: make it easy for everyone to have a railroad by leasing them yours. Lease yours multiple times over, each time for less than it would cost the customer to build a new one. Stage 3: everyone has a railroad which they rent from you. Collect rent on all railroad activity forever.
  • stcredzero 9y ago
    How about: Everyone owns a car?
    • spartanatreyu 9y ago
      rent out the cars
      • kuschku 9y ago
        And this is where Uber/Waymo are going. Welcome, you just reinvented the problem of rent-seeking.
        • shaki-dora 9y ago
          “Rent-seeking” has nothing to do with “renting someone a car”, common term notwithstanding.
          • kuschku 9y ago
            Rent seeking has everything to do with trying to extract a continuous profit out of a resource.
            • ci5er 9y ago
              Are you sure?
    • ENGNR 9y ago
      It always comes back to the car analogy
    • ehnto 9y ago
      Where cars are a small Virtual Server, and the VPS provider runs on AWS. Oh no, it was a railroad all along!
• stcredzero 9y ago
  So now - what is Stage 3; once everyone has a railroad - then what? Then it's a long time after the initial Industrial Revolution, and you're in a fantastic world where it's commonplace for ordinary people to own a steel machine which can travel as fast as a train at "high speed."
• lulmerchant 9y ago
  I don’t know where the metaphor is supposed to go, but I’d imagine that the next stage for AWS is to move further into SaaS products, and to introduce new products and features that lower the engineering overheads of operating on AWS.