Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Are we putting all our eggs in one basket? No one seems to be arranging this, but we are putting are our eggs in one basket?

A couple of recent news stories caused me to pause and think (a dangerous thing, thinking). Eight tech companies have over 30% of the value of some stock market or other. Nividia sells a large proportion of its product a just a couple of buyers. Nividia ships 90-something percent of all GPUs in the world. TSMC makes a large majority of all the something-or-other in the world. And what percentage of the knowledge management market is owned by WordPress?

Is someone running this show? Do they know what they are doing? Do they exist?

And who is “they?” Well, this is all private enterprise or something. None of it is illegal (yet).

Still, it seems like if the wrong person slips on a banana peel in the company cafeteria…this could all come crashing down on someone’s head. All those eggs would break in one perilous moment.