Slow money

There is a big divide in the world of business. On the one hand, people dig and deploy glass-fibre networks. Simply to be able to beat the buy and sell orders on the stock exchange by a few thousands of a millisecond in order to earn millions of dollars. Hot and fast so to say…. It is perhaps the most extreme form of capitalism. On the other end is the slow capital. Family-driven organizations for whom the short term is less important than the long term existence. Slow capital builds durable enterprises with benefits for all involved. Flash money is however based on the same entrepreneurship. Seeing an opportunity and build an organization to capture it. Yet, it is basically for the good of only a few. To what extent does it add something. Is being a few milliseconds faster something we as society want to value. Or do we regard it more as a 21st century way of thievery? It’s a dilemma. My opinion sways to the slow money. Build to last. Not build for fast, faster, fastest.