Part of the Capitalist mythos for sure, “if you’re not growing, you’re dying.” There’s a rejection of the idea that you could reach a healthy equilibrium of size and just remain there.
And because of the way the rest of the market works, it forces everybody to act like that or get beat out completely. Vicious feedback loops.
From an investor’s perspective why would you invest in OSS when you can invest in real estate. Why structuring an economy where investors decide everything is fucking terrible.
I love how that mythos even extends to large mega corporations who can say “our customer base includes most of the world’s population”
Shout-out to when Facebook started trying to become a WISP in Africa for no reason than because they already had almost every single person with an internet connection with an account so they wanted to get more people online to get more accounts
You’re right. I should say “profit growth” which is what corporations look for. You can have solid growth, but unless it’s growing, they don’t care.
Part of the Capitalist mythos for sure, “if you’re not growing, you’re dying.” There’s a rejection of the idea that you could reach a healthy equilibrium of size and just remain there.
And because of the way the rest of the market works, it forces everybody to act like that or get beat out completely. Vicious feedback loops.
There’s a word for sth that grows unlimited and uncontrolled. Cancer.
From an investor’s perspective why would you invest in OSS when you can invest in real estate. Why structuring an economy where investors decide everything is fucking terrible.
I love how that mythos even extends to large mega corporations who can say “our customer base includes most of the world’s population”
Shout-out to when Facebook started trying to become a WISP in Africa for no reason than because they already had almost every single person with an internet connection with an account so they wanted to get more people online to get more accounts