Cory Doctorow on Nostr: If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, ...

If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you *really* gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches.

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