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by onion2k 2296 days ago
Why not?

Because low risk companies are always relatively easy to copy, so as soon as you see any success you'll have clones pop up and take market share, which will lower your returns.

Any business where the risk is low is, by definition, not doing anything other people can't do. If only you can do it then you have to build the market yourself, which would represent a high risk.