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The way biology evolves to adapt is also very shortsighted! Even without long-term planning, it can still make spiders!

Or, more broadly, crabs. Carcinisation for all!

Biology does that through a try-and-fail approach.

Something akin to venture capital, where it makes many, many tries most of which fail and the occasional success moves the field forward.

Presumably investors want more reliable returns from mature companies.

The survival of the monopolies, monopsonies, oligopolies, oligopsonists is down to whether or not they can defend, protect and retain their monopolies (etc.)

I don't know, giving Google/randomBigCo leadership too much credit here on even being able to plan long term enough to do that.