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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: The new hotness
Date: 01/15/26 10:17 AM
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But, when everyone jumps in, will growth and margin evaporate, like they did with EVs?

Sure. That’s one of the basic tenets of free market-ism. When McDonald’s shows that fast food can be wildly profitable, you suddenly get Wendy’s and Burger King and Roy Rogers and Arby’s and a thousand others, which compresses margins all around until some are so skinny they go out of business.

A few with somehow lasting durable advantages (Moat is the vogue term) stick around but they are rarely as wunderkind as their former glory. The Big 3 have been late, late, late to the party so many times you wonder if they’re just completely asleep.

Actually I don’t wonder any more. I’m pretty sure of it.
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