{"id":4463,"date":"2025-09-25T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:15:10","slug":"eggs-and-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/09\/eggs-and-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggs and Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>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<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is someone running this show? Do they know what they are doing? Do they exist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And who is &#8220;they?&#8221; Well, this is all private enterprise or something. None of it is illegal (yet). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, it seems like if the wrong person slips on a banana peel in the company cafeteria&#8230;this could all come crashing down on someone&#8217;s head. All those eggs would break in one perilous moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,349,44,3,231],"tags":[122,350,166,126,232],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-emergency","category-risk","category-technology","category-trust","tag-economics","tag-emergency","tag-risk","tag-technology","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}