On 8/22/00 8:11 PM, Martin L. Shoemaker
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
>
>Tell that to all the start-up business that fail in the firt year. Or the
>second. Or the third. Or the tenth. Or... Sorry, you can paint commerce as
>some evil conspiracy if you want. But it is one of the most pure testing
>labs of idea/execution/communication around.
Examine the history of George W. Bush in business. Ask yourself why
people kept giving him money. Ask yourself how many people would have
handed him money after his failures if he didn't have "Bush" at the end
of his name.
I don't exactly see, other than given you an excuse to bray like a
jackass, what "failed business" offer to negate any of the points I
mentioned. After all, if you have connections, you get to screw up more
than one company. If you don't (i.e. have to work with your own money)
life's a lot harder, and your start-up is a lot more likely to fail. But
as for connections: another example for ya. Gil Amelio is still
employed after his disaster at Apple, and still burning up other people's
money. In a Darwinian market, he would have been flushed down the toilet.
If you don't think modern business is a matter of back-scratching and
connections, you need to actually ENTER real business for a few years.
And I'm not talking some pissant garage business -- try some real
corporate work, the uglier the better. The connections aren't not some
"evil conspiracy", or any sort of conspiracy at all. It's just the way
things are: the "open market" has always been a myth, since the earliest
days of capitalism.
BTW, to be "pure", a "testing lab" would need to free of external
influences. I can assure you no real-world system, economics included,
is free of external influence.
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