Thank you very much for sharing that. What ever happened to "small is beautiful" and "less is more?" These used to be core "hacker" values. Had Twitter follo

Thank you very much for sharing that. What ever happened to "small is beautiful" and "less is more?" These used to be core "hacker" values. Had Twitter followed such a strategy it might still be sustainable. Edit: as an aside, consider the parallel in the music business. It is now possible, thanks to technology, to self-produce and market one's own music without "VC funding" from a record label. However, it's almost impossible to gain meaningful exposure, without which it is impossible to earn a sustainable income. It turns out that few people want to listen to unknown artists. What most people want to listen to is whatever is most popular. And to be the most popular requires massive marketing, which requires a record label. No surprise then that the big labels - which were supposedly destroyed by the internet - are actually stronger than ever before. We seem to be an a race for hypercentralization - a race empowered by the internet that was supposed to decentralize things. I'll also add that the rise to stardom and "riches" in the music business comes with similar creative and ethical compromises discussed in the article.