At 10:47 AM +0200 4/7/00, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>> >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying.
>> >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of
>> >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right?
>>
>> You're being foolish.
>
>explain that to the 10k people who lost a job at my hypothetical
>company. or the stockholders, who lost their money.
Businesses fail, companies lose out to competitors, all part of the
process of "creative destructionism" of capitalism (Schumpeter's
term). Nothing surprising here.
You're foolish in nearly all of your dozens of posts here in the last
day or two.
I would ordinarily suggest a kill file for you, but you probably have
some tortured belief that "online presences are like people, so
killfiles are like murder."
--Tim May
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