[AnthonyMouse]

> Trouble with this scheme is, the "pie growth", when it happens, is distributed to a very small group of people who have the ability to make big bets - so it compounds.

It seems like the real trouble is that we've set things up so that "big bets" are required.

Huge tomes of regulations that have one-time compliance costs, so the cost to a tiny shop is the same as it is to Comcast or Microsoft, and regulatory capture to keep it that way.

Tax laws that encourage profits to be kept within the corporation instead of returned to investors, which requires successful companies to become conglomerates.

Laws that allow Hollywood and Apple to control content distribution and reject anything from anyone who poses a competitive threat to them.

Fix things like that and you won't have to be so big to grow the pie.