No idea why you are being downvoted. A Red Queen's Race is exactly what's going on. Even without much currency inflation there is constant pressure for businesses to outgrow each other because... well... everyone else is doing it! It's exactly like the constant arms race that occurs between nations and forces them to constantly spend trillions of dollars on weapons that will mostly never be used.
Frankly i see the pressure coming from the financial world.
There is a massive, blinding, focus on quarterly profits and dividends.
This leads to all kinds of hype cycles and cargo cults to try to goose the stock price, no matter how hail mary or unhealthy it is for the corporation in the long term.
That is also a Red Queen's Race. It's a blinding focus on quarterly profits all the way up, and down.
Re:Why is everyone so busy? (2014)
by codetrotter on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:25AM
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You forgot to include the link you were going to reference.
This is the reference AFAIK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
Re:Why is everyone so busy? (2014)
by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:13PM
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Something I've noticed a lot in tech is that companies will spend a huge amount of money to push new features that aren't core to the business and to launch new products that frequently fail. I've always viewed these as attempting to prevent competition from emerging rather than trying to compensate for inflation.