I think the point is that at small scale a single accident poses a risk of ruin to your small operations.
reply> I think the point is that at small scale a single accident poses a risk of ruin to your small operations.
replyAt big scale, a single big accident poses a risk to ruin your big operations.
No, it does not. Every large company eventually has a big accident. They survive because they have both the resources (e.g. to fight ensuing legal battles, or pay fines, or simply weather a hit to reputation and the resulting downturn in revenue) as well as redundancy, different types of insurance, and so on.
replyThey also survive because they invest those resources in some amount of mitigation ahead of time. They don't survive when they don't scale their mitigations along with the business.
replyThe point is that if you have a 10% chance of frying motherboard, at 10 a week, you might expect 1 fried p/w, but it could easily be more which may be catastrophic.
replyAt 1000, the number of fried boards will be more predictable and therefore the risk to the business is lower, even if the long-run averages are the same.