"Fail often to succeed faster" is accepted wisdom in Silicon Valley. Failure is the path to success simply because it produces the information that makes success possible. At Valley movie eminence Pixar, they rush to their problems. Basically they frontload recessions, which are nothing more than healing periods during which individuals and businesses fix what they were doing wrong. Politicians fight recessions at their peril.
Much the same, they subsidize businesses at their peril. Subsidies free businesses from having to realize their errors quickly. Subsidies enable avoidance, they allow businesses to not come to terms with what's not working. Subsidies logically weaken businesses precisely because they slow down the failing without which there can be no progress.
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