I’m often surprised when reading about startups that critics move to envisioning a world where the startup has won so totally that there is no altern…

I’m often surprised when reading about startups that critics move to envisioning a world where the startup has won so totally that there is no alternative to their model, which is not what the victory case looks like.

Thought prompted by (paraphrase) “Who will cross-subsidize the education of non-renumerative-occupation-of-interest after Lambda School is educating every professional in capitalism?”

And as much as I share enthusiasm for living in that hypothetical universe good golly there is a heck of a lot of work between the status quo and the first 1% of that outcome.

(There’s also a weird ability to forecast only the activities of the startup being criticized but nothing about the wider dynamic system. Surely if the revenue stream of colleges goes down by tens of percent over decades they can find at least one smart person to do something.)