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09-26-2017 , 11:21 AM

#51

.Alex.

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,672

Ok and Coca Cola doesn't really taste much different from other cola products. What's your point?

09-26-2017 , 11:25 AM

#52

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 20,065

Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

Ok and Coca Cola doesn't really taste much different from other cola products. What's your point?

That it's weird to allocate the value to the lucky few who captured it rather than to the many who generated it in the first place.

09-26-2017 , 11:37 AM

#53

.Alex.

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 5,672

It wasn't just "luck" as I tried to argue earlier itt.

My point is simply that if you agree that an industry is revolutionary, it follows that the person/company that brought it to the masses and made it culturally mainstream deserves a lot of credit.

What's weird to me is then saying, "well actually thousands of people were responsible for the development of cars so it's unfair that we only read about Henry Ford in textbooks."

I mean it's technically true but only in the sense that everyone who made it big in any industry was "lucky" to be at the right place in the right time for their idea to take off.

09-26-2017 , 12:01 PM

#54

Victor

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 71,953

thought yall would be talking about the recent report on how facebook pretty much helped the russians to promote tons of divisive material and gained greatly financially. such a total scumbag company.

09-26-2017 , 10:45 PM

#55

Praetor1an

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 251

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomdemaine

That it's weird to allocate the value to the lucky few who captured it rather than to the many who generated it in the first place.

Life isn't fair.

09-27-2017 , 12:03 AM

#56

DrModern

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 6,592

Quote:

Originally Posted by .Alex.

Ok and Coca Cola doesn't really taste much different from other cola products. What's your point?

Was Coca Cola the first cola product brought to market? Was John Stith Pemberton the first person to come up with the idea of a cola product? Because otherwise who cares about John and his precise recipe for something that already existed?

Here's a 2008 NYT article that explains a bit more than Tom or I have, but his roulette wheel analogy is actually quite good.