When pursing a core mission, many corps fail, either because lack of resources, or mission itself is not meaningful, execution failure, etc.; they might be in growth, while their mission keeps self-reinforce into bigger and bigger mission, that's the wonderful time of meaningful growth.
When the core mission is done. The corp needs to reset. Either they get profit that is small enough that they normal corperate logic prevail, and they behave normally.
But when the core mission is so meaningful that the corp reaps so large a profit that they themselves atrack enough stakeholders that they no longer focus on core mission, they start to focus on profit.
That's how NVDA is now buying assets across the whole stack of AI, while still increase price to maintain its profit. NVDA wants to maximize profit.
The inherent flaw is that private corp in US system, has no meaningful end game when they are in this state of astronomical profit.
Hardly surprising to see a company with strategic interests strategically try to achieve them. A business exists to make money, and if pulling policy levers is required to make money, you'll see them try to pull the levers.
Reverse Citizens United and you solve these kind of problems at the source.
downrightmike•28m ago