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Scale Ruins Everything

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175 points drc500free | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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adamc ◴[14 Oct 24 21:39 UTC] No.41842310[source]▶
One of the questions all this raises for me is: what fraction of successful startups actually make society better?

I'm sure to get pushback here, but my suspicion is: most do not. Looking at companies like Facebook, Amazon, or Google, I'm kind of think they made it worse. Yeah, I know, some people benefited. But net-net, I preferred having more and better bookstores to Amazon. I don't like what google has become at all. And Facebook has never been good.

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1. Ekaros ◴[15 Oct 24 13:36 UTC] No.41848457[source]▶
I think those companies increased efficiency, which in general makes things better as long as there is sufficient competition in their markets... Sadly governments have failed in stopping them from hovering up startups and like. So now they in many cases have too much power.