> From the outside it just looks like you guys are resting on a giant warchest with feuding petty fiefdoms while the king is asleep at the throne. They're prob

> From the outside it just looks like you guys are resting on a giant warchest with feuding petty fiefdoms while the king is asleep at the throne. They're probably operating like a third world nation that finds a natural resource like Oil or diamonds or something. That was google search / ads. The company now is full of internal corruption which is just the petty fiefdoms all squabbling over the spoils, while the industry is being badly managed. Lets see if I can find the economics book on that... The Bottom Billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottom_Billion Chapter 3 is on "the natural resources trap" I haven't read it in over a decade and the analogy may fall apart, particularly when it comes to stuff like trade and currency -- but the problems of governance when a country is overflowing with natural resources is the narrow slice I'm talking about being analogous.