The catch is that you don't need to keep buying them forever. You only need to keep buying them until the networked system has existed for so long that the previous system has atrophied sufficiently to make the ability to obtain a larger slice of the cake at the cost of diminishing the cake a losing proposition.
Why would people engage in an activity that so obviously undermines their power in the long term? Because people don't think long-term, particularly psychopaths.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
