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Scale Ruins Everything

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175 points drc500free | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.203s | source
1. smitty1e ◴[] No.41843796[source]
> Those were the innocuous founding ideas behind DoorDash, AirBnB, Uber, and Facebook. At scale, they would ruin communities, put restaurants out of business, destroy the dream of home ownership, and eventually undermine democracy itself.

Impossible to assess. These things happened, but as a chemistry experiment. You'd need to be some sort of $Diety to track the individiual atoms in the solution and judge the alternatives.

Quit this fruitlessness while you're behind, say I.