Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 10:28:19 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> Musk in it. I do think there's a value-add there. You need 
> entrepreneurs with a combination of business sense and product 
> focus - that's actually pretty rare.

Not really. Every country has thousands if not millions of 
entrepreneurs, but few of them have the capital to grow fast. 
Where you have large gains you also have high risks, when you 
take high risks you usually also need luck. Why was my country 
flooded by Teslas when they launched? It was because the 
Norwegian government had removed taxes on electric cars and 
allowed them to drive in the bus/taxi lane, so Teslas became 
"cheap" luxury cars… You cannot plan for that kind of luck. When 
media tell tales about success they tend to ignore the timing, 
luck and not having the competition launch a submarine product 
that undermines your own product. For every success story there 
are many failures that did roughly the same things, and the 
source for failure can be as simple as not having the funds to do 
marketing.

People who run fast is also not very rare, but there is only one 
person who runs faster than everyone else. That person will take 
it all. If you remove the fastest runners, you still have plenty 
of people that run fast. So I don't buy your argument here.

If you remove Intel, we will still have fast computers. If you 
remove Apple we will still have good mobile phons. If you remove 
Google we will still have high quality search. If you remove 
Microsoft we will still have good cloud computing services. Etc. 
Etc. Etc. If you remove Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, very little 
will change, because the same people will work for some other 
entity filling the void.