If investors understand that online distribution is revolutionizing the retail sector, isolating the sector’s CEOs from financial markets would just push more resources into a deteriorating, shrinking business model. In this sense (and only this sense), short-term thinking that induces change and movement away from obsolete technology – here and throughout the economy – may well facilitate long-term prosperity.
如果投资者能理解在线分销正在彻底改革零售业，那么把零售业的总裁与金融市场隔离开来只会把更多的资源推到一个恶化萎缩的经济模型。从这种意义上说（也仅仅在这个意义上），引起变化和运动远离过时技术的短期投资——在零售业以及整个经济中——可能会很好地促进长期繁荣。