• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 hours ago

    Ironically, leveraging this kind of tactic is what allowed Google, Amazon and Apple and Microsoft to become as huge as they did, as fast as they did.

    Got a whole bunch of lines of business that can functionally subsidize other ventures, so they can make a push for market share.

    But of course this doesn’t take too long to turn your whole economy into oligopoly, and thus your society into oligarchy… at best.

    I… I think Gabe really just isn’t as fundamentally awful of a person as most other tech company heads.

    Yeah, he’s got a yacht, but he could be so, so much fucking worse…