> More jobs and businesses have been created by the decline of IBM than lost in Armonk. Actually, IBM and its mainframes/midrange have continued to prosper alo

> More jobs and businesses have been created by the decline of IBM than lost in Armonk. Actually, IBM and its mainframes/midrange have continued to prosper along with all of the newer growth markets in business computing. That's not just a correction about IBM, it's fundamental to noticing that job growth in these sectors was not "created by the decline of" anything. It was created by a huge expansion in the total amount of computing value that businesses found needs to consume in the marketplace. When zero-sum your ideology is, 900 years-old you will not reach. And not stray too far OT, but this is what I dislike about the "kill hollywood" meme. There isn't anything inherently hollywood-killing about the project of expanding the meaning of media production and delivery to include new (and great!) films that aren't produced by traditional studios...and there probably shouldn't be.