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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by throwayEngineer on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:15AM (#19819146)
Not uncommon for most businesses.

>You build something, people want it, pay money.

>Competition happens and you need to change or die

Don't change quick enough, you are dead. Big companies can't change quickly, but they can throw money at problems. Death of a company is inevitable.

Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by blotter_paper on Friday May 03, 2019 @11:32AM (#19819295)
I mean, yes, but that's true of any system with competition. At 1441 years old, Kongō Gumi has outlasted a great many things. They will eventually die, though.