Tag: Monopolies
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Scaling Is a Problem. Downscaling Is a Wicked Problem.
Scaling is easy. Just throw more hardware at it, more bodies, more capital, more hype. Pump it up, stack it high, run the numbers until they glow. A startup becomes a unicorn, a unicorn becomes a monopoly, and suddenly the market’s a game of Monopoly where one guy owns all the hotels and everyone else…
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The SV Ouroboros: Eating Its Own Future
Ah, the glittering contradictions of Silicon Valley, where the titans of “innovation” hold the steering wheel with one hand and strangle competition with the other. The ecosystem of disruption is now an ant farm encased in venture-backed resin. We’re engineering a conflict to kickstart a future that will take us forward 75 years into the…