New businesses that adopted old business models will continuously suffer heavy earnings losses because they spend too much money. And their customers are moving to new domains, by the millions, annually. Broadband makes content producers out of content consumers and by providing incentives to producers of information and entertainment content, WSN will grow simply by word of mouth. Internet company employees are organizing into labor unions and Internet companies are down sizing or moving to low-level service centers in order to prevent bankruptcy. WSN says they don't have the same problems as other companies because they handle information, not products.
Information creates value and attracts customers more than products do.
Physical products also suffer from low profit margins in mature capital markets and the markets producing physical products are rapidly shrinking due to the proliferation of digital products. You may soon see physical schools being converted to housing because students will learn from their bedrooms through cable, DSL, fiber optic and wireless connections. So too will shopping malls, theaters, office buildings, warehouses and government facilities. Cars, traffic, pollution, deforestation and the public stock market will all likely be affected by the growth of the Internet as it continues to permeate our everyday lives. This is the logic behind WSN publishing 15,000 pages of collective knowledge in the past 7 years rather than heavily investing cash into broadband content.