Your e-commerce site is as good as his. You use the same technology. Bits are bits. Or the stock market is insane. Wrong and wrong.
Capitalism is entirely just and sane, at least as sane as any human institution can be.
The problem is your dusty, old, creaking shareholders. They won't let you invest big for change. They're one more of your blasted legacy assets. Year after year you stood before them at the annual meeting and cut a deal, promising them modest growth and a steady dividend check. Silicon chip designers on the other coast burned the midnight oil.