Re: Some truth about investment and growth
While growth is embraced by big business (growth mitigates multiple internal weaknesses), I believe government is probably the larger advocate for growth, because only growth allows them to survive perpetual deficit spending. Just like growth can hide many weaknesses in business, in government it tolerates the waste and inefficiency as long as they can realize a few percent of GDP growth (anybody remember when we were growing a few percent?).
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That just sounds like a different flavor of growth.
The size of the total market doesn't matter much to the individual fish swimming in the school, other than to suggest an environment that "could" support another small business.
To consider growth one must analyze the business model. Some small business models, are self-limiting if say the owner-operator must do almost everything by himself/herself, and doesn't have an easily scalable operation.
The MacDonalds vs. local specialty restaurant is a good example. The small provider can not possibly compete with MacDonalds on price so you better beat them on service and performance. Whether it's a good choice for a restaurant owner depends on the preferences of the local population. Luckily for small sound providers no major company has attempted to deliver sound reinforcement on a wide scale.
For extra credit you might want to ponder why that is?
JR
