End-of-the-Week Ruminations: "Superannuation"

       "Superannuation" is the title I gave yesterday's post, and it made me ask myself, "Was this an appropriate title?"

       It means "old-fashioned" or "obsolete," and I guess I thought it referred to Uber being too "old," at something like four years old, to be called a "start-up" any longer.

       The word origin is Medieval Latin [superannuatus] meaning "over one year old."

       Egad.  That's about it.  A company older than a year these days is probably beyond a start-up, and has to be ready for the competition from  all the other "up-starts."  It's "superannuated."