The Portuguese and Dutch didn’t take over Venice’s trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean. They sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and went direct to the sources further east. Nothing Venice had gave it any lead in that - you can’t take a galley to India
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Microsoft didn’t take IBM’s mainframe business, and Apple and Google didn’t take Microsoft’s businesses in PC operating systems or spreadsheets. And those businesses have a long half life, but they stopped being the means for dominance. No-one is scared of IBM or Microsoft today.
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Eventually they disappear. Bonaparte shut down the Venetian Republic a century or more after anyone would have cared. Then it was traded on to the Austrians. Look at Olivetti, or Boroughs, or Friden, or Sun. They end up as footnotes in someone else’s balance sheet.
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Related: I'm intrigued by people who point to Microsoft's market cap or financials as evidence it's still somehow dominant in... something. The mere fact that Apple, Google and Amazon have similar market caps should ipso facto show the change
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Being rich is not the same as being powerful. Power is the ability to make people do something they don't want to do. Power means people worry about what you will do. In 1995, everyone worried what Microsoft would do. In 1980: IBM. Today?
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Microsoft is currently the world's *largest* company by market capitalization, and that is not at all independent of its never really dismantled dominance over Windows/Office. There are indeed more places to monopolize but that's not same as routes moving—a zero-sum transaction.pic.twitter.com/drjjODFFlK
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Look at IBM's share price in the years after 1995. A good business doing well for shareholders is not AT ALL the same as market dominance. Control of the PC has been irrelevant for a decade. Arguably two decades.
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Except... people still flock to Venice and traders there can charge crazy money for their services / produce. I get the analogy but it’s a poor one
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Venice was one of the richest cities on earth, totally dominating trade in goods between the Far East and Europe. Now it's a depopulated tourist trap. You clearly don't get the analogy at all.
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A clever and useful model. But Roman isn't a smoldering crater. Roman influence merely morphed with the rise of Christianity. It's arguably greater than ever -- if you look beyond the GDP metric.
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When the empire collapsed, Rome's population went from over a million to 20-30k. Smoking crater is a pretty good description.
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