One of the challenges with a hyper capitalist economy is that most content / production on a money forward basis returns to its cost of marginal production, which is zero for ideas (and wind energy and solar energy, etc.).

How do you create a network that operates profitably if there is no defendable “moat?” 

This is why railroads are such a fascinating industry…the value of a single railroad from A-B can capture almost the entire value of the supply chain from A-B … a second railroad alongside A-B renders both almost totally worthless on a go-forward basis.

Technology (compute) has this challenge … expensive to develop upfront and then the profitability is tied to the marginal cost of production on a go forward basis (low). Same with pharmaceuticals, same with commodities, etc.

The Bit Block Boom relay I paid for went down recently … no idea why …