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"Need," in the "greater good for society" sense, is often disconnected from profitability. Shut up and build it? There have been several attempts at undercuttin
by intopieces 9y ago
"Need," in the "greater good for society" sense, is often disconnected from profitability. Shut up and build it? There have been several attempts at undercutting Facebook in the last decade and they failed. Their failure is not evidence of Facebook's divinity, of a mandate to rule all social networks. To assert as much is to claim that consumers are rational actors through and through, which is not true.
- mseebach 9y agoThe road to hell is littered with "solutions" "for the greater good" foisted upon a population that did not actually want it. Facebook is popular by and large because the people that use Facebook like Facebook.
- intopieces 9y agoYour generalization lumps short term want/enjoyment with long term need. Let's stop making diabetes medicine. If people actually wanted to not have diabetes, they'd stop eating candy.