Could someone please make a scatterplot of this data, with a curve fitted to it? I suspect there is a very important shape here that no one has seen before.https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1095395031006040071 …
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There are some notable omissions, esp. Standard Oil (which grew amazingly), only companies from the breakup.
Overall, this seems closely related to the surprisingly regular growth of GDP, and I wonder if there are models which can explain this graph essentially as a byproduct of the growth of GDP. Also seems related to the "innovation: slowing down, speeding up" question.
