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by qshqwudhoquc 2145 days ago
This doesn't seem like an argument you can make since A) modern capitalist companies have only been around for 400 or so years B) 'big' companies since then have not lasted more than 200 years at the very high end.

There is literally not enough data to make the point you are trying to make. All evidence available, which isn't much, shows big companies are destined to fail if they keep expanding.

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It is essentially an incompletely defined argument that goalposts can be set anywhere from absurdly near term (it won't die in the next five seconds and thus is immortal) to the absurdly far (it almost certainly won't survive in a millenia and is thus already dust). Shell has spanned slavery to fossil fuels in commodities sold but the mortality curve shows only very few outliers can survive historic terms, let alone grow over them.