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But what if I want a faster horse?

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1525 points saeedesmaili | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 11:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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jmull ◴[11 Apr 25 13:48 UTC] No.43653768[source]▶
If people can't find a sustainable business model around that thing you want, it's just not going to be widely available.

It's hard to say for sure if Netflix could have/should have kept going in the direction they were going in 2012. But they didn't seem to think so.

You can't necessarily count on businesses springing up to satisfy your personal interests and tastes. Especially large-scale businesses, which are always going to gravitate toward the center of large markets. It's great when it happens, but it's basically just luck when it does.

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joshuaturner ◴[11 Apr 25 13:59 UTC] No.43653863[source]▶
The problem is with the definition of “sustainable business model.”

Could you maintain a profitable business and continue steady growth? Sure. Could you become a unicorn and IPO within the next 5 years? Unlikely.

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1. marcosdumay ◴[11 Apr 25 14:33 UTC] No.43654243[source]▶
Or, in other words, our entire society is focused on creating fake business that can only survive in a monopolized market (or can't even then).

That's because the money is concentrated into a few dumb people with limited capacity to invest it. So they'll push it into a handful of companies that will destroy whatever sustainable companies that exist on the same market.