What differentiates the thing me and my friends want from a scaling business is the whole business. I know young people excited about making fantasy figurines or simplifying 10 minutes of daily administrivia, but that’s not going to fly.
Aristotle describes four causes, and pg has given two; not because he doesn’t know the rest, but because this post is not intended to guide people, but to tamp down the demonizing of success, lest it usher in a Cold War on Capitalism.
There’s much to criticize, but today politicians are desperately herding outrage to make up for their ineffectual performance, so instead of criticism resulting in field-leveling regulation, we’re just seeing haircuts that send the rats scurrying off the boat and fuel for the fires consuming it.