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Crumbling empires
Authored by: stegu on Saturday, June 02 2012 @ 03:59 PM EDT
A kind of corporate imperialism as a sign of
impending doom? Yes, perhaps. Like ancient Rome,
MS pretty much conquered the entire known world,
and then they stagnated because they didn't have
a plan for what to do when they ran out of their
fresh supply of slaves and plunder.

Corporations today see a lack of expansion as
a failure. I never quite understood why. It
should be perfectly OK for a company to just
maintain a small but stable market share in
some reasonably lucrative niche.

Expansion should not be the norm. Depending on
expansion and growth to stay viable is unhealthy.
The Roman Empire should have taught us that,
but I guess economists think that history has
nothing to teach them, because everything we do
nowadays is oh-so-new and previously unheard of.
It's not. Old mistakes are repeated all the time,
and people are still people.
(I feel very old and bitter right now.)

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