Startup = disruption = threat to existing control.
If you love control and have control, why would you want to create fertile ground for startups?
(This was meant as devil's advocate, not my personal point of view).
If you love control and have control, why would you want to create fertile ground for startups?
(This was meant as devil's advocate, not my personal point of view).
You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
I can see it as a rational strategy if you're worried successors won't be up to the job.
Hitler for example thought he was justified. And so do all the people who claim global warming isn’t real.
When a company or a society is threatened the usual response is to double down on things that accelerate decline like killing novelty and innovation.
These things worked when we were small primates fighting over limited food sources on the savannah. Our brain stems don’t know what millennium they are in and still run those programs.
Which is exactly what our system encourages. You don’t need to think beyond the next quarter / election cycle. You’re only in it to extract as much wealth in the short-term as possible and secure your chair before the music stops playing.
It looks like long term risky bet on new technology to me - exactly what you want those rich capitalist do.