alt Hacker NewsThat’s kinda like asking why does any company make and sell any tool rather than just using the tool to make money? Why does Milwaukee sell power tools to contractors rather than keeping those tools to themselves to profit from contracting work?
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chrisfosterelli • yesterday at 11:03 PM
Eh but if Milwaukee was to then invent a power tool that it claimed could soon do the contractors' whole job... OPs question would correspondingly exist there too.
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Because that company does not mint (supposedly) thinking machines - the lack of humans at a price point that is feasible is often the reason - it would be more profitable to sell the tooling because its impossible to maintain all the layers of specialization within one company.