Capital Allocation Lag

When market size and investment scale become significantly misaligned, capital continues flowing toward relatively saturated sectors due to cognitive inertia, risk preferences, and past success experiences, while overlooking emerging fields with superior fundamentals but higher cognitive barriers. This lag is not a short-term market inefficiency but rather a built-in time constant problem in capital decision-making mechanisms.

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