Is it a good model though to move the world forward?
If I just look at Tesla's battery day, the amount of effort that's needed to stop air pollution & CO2 emissions is huge, and it looks like vertical integration is winning, as car companies that depend on other companies to make those risks while depending on eachother are failing to scale.
That effort is huge because the “other side” accelerating these effects is also huge and and lead by big centralized companies.
I tend to think that if these companies didn’t have as much power they couldn’t have bent the rules in their favor that much.
So, shall we accept there will always be unstoppable big companies, and counter them with other big companies, kaiju movie style ? Or try to break them out and/or counter their effect through more decentralized efforts ?
In the long run the second option seems more viable to me.
If I just look at Tesla's battery day, the amount of effort that's needed to stop air pollution & CO2 emissions is huge, and it looks like vertical integration is winning, as car companies that depend on other companies to make those risks while depending on eachother are failing to scale.