Even big businesses don't last forever. Eventually they get gobbled up by a competitor or a new leaner arrival disrupts their business or the market changes.
>You either have to plan to eventually be destroyed
I suspect letting go is difficult for a lot of people.
I'm not necessarily onboard with what OP was proposing, but as a counterpoint to your hypothetical, what is stopping those losing businesses from simply closing rather than just bleeding out until death? The way this is phrased makes it sound like a company is obligated (required?) to slowly wither and die.
Can you clarify your argument? It sounds like you're saying, "sure, most businesses will cease functioning within 2 years, but you get so much out of starting your own company that it doesn't matter".
The OP's point about certain businesses disappearing is valid. Just as an example, pizza parlors may disappear. Instead that demand will be satiated by highly efficient instant delivery services (with no storefront and almost no staff) or perhaps not at all. Do you see many elevator attendants lately?
Also to be clear, we're not talking about anything remotely like a free market.
If the current situation lasts for very long, almost no business can handle that without help. Even online-only services will at some point start to feel the pain from the real world.
People, you can hassle them forever.
Kinda sad how that is.
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