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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-28 hours agoIronically, 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…
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…