Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by rmah on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:36PM
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When the largest revenue companies do about 10x in sales what they're doing now. Current US GDP is about $33T. Total domestic revenue of the top 10 US companies is about currently about $3.4T. There are around 36mil US companies. The bottom 90% bring in about $3.5T in total revenues. This roughly fits the expected pareto (power-law) distribution . So, a corporate oligopoly doesn't seem likely anytime soon.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu...
by techblueberry on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:43PM
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But communism doesn’t work in smaller countries either. I don’t think you have to be as big as the US government to have enough money to engage in deals that obscure demand signals.
I feel like one of the central arguments against communism is that the central government is too big to successfully plan an economy, especially when it doesn’t have the distributed demand signals of a free market.
At what point does a private enterprise become so big and well capitalized it suffers the same problem. There are some notions here that Jensen is a genius for being able to orchestrate the demand for its products.
But I suspect we’re going to discover that this is vulnerable to the same problem.