1)
Market Saturation....
It is quite easy for every bozo and his uncle to sell a speaker out of his garage these days with big margins. In spite of his severe lack of aptitude, he’ll buy drivers from somewhere, slap it on a board and send it to some paid YT reviewer to launch himself (start to look legit outta nowhere).
2)
The greedy old men never give any money to their descendants to help the latter out. Such old men are dumber/have lower aptitude than their descendants actually. But, it was a lot easier to make money back in those days than now.
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