perhaps the competitive dynamic was bound to emerge anyway and it was hubristic to think ourselves so important.
Um, I think that understates the case rather vastly, and lets “you” off the hook too easily.
It was always obvious that innumerable kinds of competition would probably be decisive factors in the way things actually played out, and that any attempt to hide from that would lead to dangerous mistakes. It wasn’t just obvious “pre-Musk”. It was blindingly obvious in 1995. Trying to ignore it was not an innocuous error.
I’m not sure that a person who would try to do that even qualifies as a “wise” fool.
Um, I think that understates the case rather vastly, and lets “you” off the hook too easily.
It was always obvious that innumerable kinds of competition would probably be decisive factors in the way things actually played out, and that any attempt to hide from that would lead to dangerous mistakes. It wasn’t just obvious “pre-Musk”. It was blindingly obvious in 1995. Trying to ignore it was not an innocuous error.
I’m not sure that a person who would try to do that even qualifies as a “wise” fool.