[SMAAART]

It's the Golden Rule: who's got the gold (money), makes the rules.

[Fordec]

And if your rules are to deliberately avoid opportunity, don't be shocked if somebody else makes the money not following your rules. Free market applies to the entire economy, not "the whole economy except the VC part because we're special".

[SMAAART]

Today's role-breakers are tomorrow's rile makers whose lunch will be eaten by tomorrow's rule-breakers.

And the cycle continues.