I had a similar experience reading the “Count of Monte Cristo”. I gave up multiple times when reading the first translation.
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Dijkstra does a commendable job in explaining how people map new ideas to old ones and never really end up looking at things in a new way.
Sure some people get lucky, but on the long term, the ones who consistently make better decisions and work harder are the ones who are benefitted more often.
Also another thing is funding for startups. Smaller companies don't stand a chance against giants like Amazon because of the way they crush startups or just acquire them.
Notice how the 1B has only 6 zeros. The awesome part is that this mistake evens itself out later, yielding a correct number for "The of servers".