You are on to something here and I think you are tracking pretty well with what I’m putting forward. There is a tension between ‘do I keep spending money with grocery store A that I have a long history with and get significant dividends from’ or ‘do I go with the new upstart where my money is getting in earlier in the game and who probably has more long term potential’.
Hypercapitalism put forward the idea of limited corporate lifespans where the law of diminishing returns eventually catches up with the growth potential of an existing corporation. I’ve run these models too but don’t have them out in public yet.
The theory is that this increases the turnover of corporations and allows for more ‘fresh starts’. In a sense it is like natural selection for ideas and commerce, but hopefully we do a better job of transferring knowledge from one generation to the next than nature did for billions of years.
Bubbles are an interesting thing to think about. They mostly happen because of the complexity that arises in the market. When the housing bubble burst, it was such a big deal because the people that had made the profits on the way up had taken the money and run. There wasn’t a systematic way to smooth the risk. We have the computing power to day to track all of that so that when a bubble happens we can smooth risk and fallout and ask, ‘Ok, now what did we learn.’
Think about the late ’90s tech bubble. How much did we learn? A ton! Billion dollar companies are ridding the wave that started back then. But what about the people that were hurt in the process of generating the wave? Today it is tough luck. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You are on to something here and I think you are tracking pretty well with what I’m putting forward. There is a tension between ‘do I keep spending money with grocery store A that I have a long history with and get significant dividends from’ or ‘do I go with the new upstart where my money is getting in earlier in the game and who probably has more long term potential’.
Hypercapitalism put forward the idea of limited corporate lifespans where the law of diminishing returns eventually catches up with the growth potential of an existing corporation. I’ve run these models too but don’t have them out in public yet.
The theory is that this increases the turnover of corporations and allows for more ‘fresh starts’. In a sense it is like natural selection for ideas and commerce, but hopefully we do a better job of transferring knowledge from one generation to the next than nature did for billions of years.
Bubbles are an interesting thing to think about. They mostly happen because of the complexity that arises in the market. When the housing bubble burst, it was such a big deal because the people that had made the profits on the way up had taken the money and run. There wasn’t a systematic way to smooth the risk. We have the computing power to day to track all of that so that when a bubble happens we can smooth risk and fallout and ask, ‘Ok, now what did we learn.’
Think about the late ’90s tech bubble. How much did we learn? A ton! Billion dollar companies are ridding the wave that started back then. But what about the people that were hurt in the process of generating the wave? Today it is tough luck. But it doesn’t have to be that way.