My take, this is more common in winner-take-all industries where the long tail in skinny. It's so hard to predict what will be a success when doing something ne

My take, this is more common in winner-take-all industries where the long tail in skinny. It's so hard to predict what will be a success when doing something new that you want to milk a success. One of the smaller tragedies of economic inequality - everyone wants to become U2/Jay Leno, nobody wants to be Bill Watterson.