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Ok, so you've destroyed 10 small businesses and replaced them with 9 startups that fail after 18 months, and 1 that becomes a massive success. That's a win for the VC, and those 10 startups are "on average" profitable.

But it's still a loss for society because now we don't have those 9 small businesses or their 9 "disruptive" replacements.



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