Like many successful financiers, Dalio justifies capitalism and his place in it as a Darwinian process, in which the over-all logic of the system is sometimes hidden.

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This type of ecosystem behaviour is increasingly characterised as fail fast fail cheap, a Darwinian process where projects fail in order that management can refine products and objectives.

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This Darwinian process may have helped those managers who survived.

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But in the short term, a number of competing e-book technologies will, like VHS and Betamax before them, have to punch each other to death in a brutal, Darwinian winnowing process.

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