Unicorn: Difference between revisions

{{g}}A superficially intriguing idea, as long as your powers of disbelief-suspension remain strong and your conception of your own [[cognitive dissonance]] weak. But, fundamentally, a stupid idea, as is evidenced by the fact that if one ever did evolve — and the fossil record suggests it did not — it didn’t last long enough to make an impression an anyone but the hippies.

The {{t|metaphor}} bears unusually close examination. As long as there are willing customers able to durably suspend their disbelief - that this time is, in fact, not different; that a permanently [[cashflow negative]] enterprise must eventually hit the skids however patient are its financiers and those pouring their own [[capital]] into its leaking bucket - those telling the [[unicorn]]'s tale, whether they be children's authors or equity research analysts, are free to weave their magical stories for the wonderment of others and enrichment of themselves.