It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good

It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good for advancing the state of the art, but they're wasteful. And if you're trying to do something other than advance the state of the art, they're a trap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis