[vertex-four]

Surely you're arguing for there to be a monopoly at any given time there - if company X does Y first, you'll always use company X's stuff (even after other companies implement Y) until another company does Z first, in which case you'll always use their stuff.

Or, more specifically - there should only be one company in the world manufacturing nuts and bolts, because you can't really create a superior nut. The first company to invent them should've won out.

[reitanqild]

To be honest, superior nuts is being produced:

* self locking nuts

* different steel alloys

* different price points

* different certifications

Thinking that others jobs are simple is a mistake that I'm waning myself off: thinking that what others do is easy, - that they should just do this and that.

[DrScump]

There are certainly inferior nuts and bolts. The New (San Francisco) Bay Bridge is loaded with 'em.

(Hydrogen embrittlement)