That’s how it is today, but that was also the case at the birth of e-commerce. Amazon was a large eCom store but many others were successful and switching for price was common. Not so much anymore.
Because that is not their motivation and no amount of spin casting changes it.
There’s a simple counter-factual for people with this level of ability:
“Making money” can be easily pursued at BlackRock or any number of PE firms.
Creating historic technology, of unknown difficulty and scale of impact, is not something pure capitalism can or is designed to deliver. What would investors or customers buy at the start of OpenAI?
While OpenAI may end up a corporation like any other, it would not have achieved what it had as one.
I downvoted then thought about it more and changed my mind.
It’s a fascinating idea to consider. If we could hold shareholders of companies like UnitedHealthCare or Boeing accountable for unethical behavior… it would sure stop fast.