Originally Posted by thommy

not even the whore on the corner is a standalone biz because she would not stay on this corner if there would not be another attraction that brings people there. she would not stand there if there would not be a way to come there and she would not know where to go with the customer when there would not be an hour-hotel in the near.

if you try to understand economy from this side you will see how complex it actually is and how many obviously not connected businesses are depending on each other.

if someone would not make the internet a biz - nobody would sell anything in there.
if someone else would not make delivery to it´s biz - the internet could not be used to sell physic goods. if someone would not make payment to it´s biz - the goods bought could not be paid. and if the first one that made internet to it´s biz would not get a competitor it would be still a very very small and limited market as it would be too expensive for the mass.

an economy is an unmanageable large organism in which one wheel turns into the other. and you can look at this machine down to the smallest wheel and you will find that it does not stop there that wheels interlock.

this is also where most misjudgements and management mistakes happen because many people look too much at this single wheel and not at the big machinery where the big trends and tendencies emerge.
if you learn to look at the big picture, you will see that almost every future development is predictable.