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Private enterprise is the result of relentless evolution by natural selection. Government is not. The fact that one is able to run circles around the other sh

• AlexandrB 6y ago
  This is pretty laughable in the context of modern startups, where a small group of VCs choose the winners in advance and no one else really has a chance to compete until many years later when the "winners" run out of VC money. But even disregarding this recent development it's not like government is immune to the influences of a shifting society - otherwise we'd all still be living in monarchies.
  • robomartin 6y ago
    As a general commentary on your style, characterizing something someone says as "laughable" does not promote dialogue. We have enough ugliness out there, let's make an attempt to be civilized. That said, the world of business if far too complex for a single rule or statement to fully encompass every aspect of it. What I can say, with absolute certainty, is that the world you are referring to, the world of VC's, and the companies they represent, are but a rounding error in the business megalopolis. Yes, sure, they have created a few massive high flying companies of great influence. And yet, if you take stock of the entirety of businesses, from the corner grocery store, through construction contractors, garbage processors, laboratories, hospitals, architects, engineering firms, transportation, manufacturing, medicine, chemical plants, shipping, publishing, household products, consumer electronics and, yes, web and software development, you will find it dwarfs the VC sphere. And yes, that ecosystem very much responds to natural selection. Brutally so. Government, by comparison, evolves at a glacial pace.