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I guess one bonus is that no companies will survive intact to become Cyberpunkesque monopolies with such shortsighted planning. Instead the stock market and it
by falcolas 4y ago
I guess one bonus is that no companies will survive intact to become Cyberpunkesque monopolies with such shortsighted planning.
Instead the stock market and its adherents will be (are now?) our overlord.
- darkwizard42 4y agoI don't know, giving Google/randomBigCo leadership too much credit here on even being able to plan long term enough to do that.
- pitched 4y agoThe way biology evolves to adapt is also very shortsighted! Even without long-term planning, it can still make spiders!
- falcolas 4y agoOr, more broadly, crabs. Carcinisation for all!
- zmgsabst 4y agoBiology does that through a try-and-fail approach. Something akin to venture capital, where it makes many, many tries most of which fail and the occasional success moves the field forward. Presumably investors want more reliable returns from mature companies.
- LeonB 4y agoThe survival of the monopolies, monopsonies, oligopolies, oligopsonists is down to whether or not they can defend, protect and retain their monopolies (etc.)