@adx @ntnsndr I see your points. I've come to the view that things like private equity and venture capital are often bad, but not always purely bad. Brendan Ballou's book Plunder shows how PE does have some success stories, like keeping Barnes and Noble as a going concern. If VC provides some projects enough resources to take on Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Hollywood IP, big telecomm, and replace them with things more open and decentralized, I'm interested to see how it goes.