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Yes, there's a massive trend towards centralization where it's winner takes all, almost like unregulated private monopolies. Government regulation can't keep up
by iliketosleep 9y ago
Yes, there's a massive trend towards centralization where it's winner takes all, almost like unregulated private monopolies. Government regulation can't keep up and these corporates get richer and more powerful, at the expense of the businesses they "serve". We do seem to have reached a peculiar extreme of capitalism.
- walterbell 9y agoWhat’s stopping a metasearch engine for food delivery services, with various attributes, including the restaurant’s preferred service ranking? Google Maps has started quoting ride-hailing pricing, which is a step in that direction.
- 345655433 9y agoTwo things: a) The current players would refuse to cooperate. Making web services accessible to end-users but impossible to scrape efficiently is a solved problem. b) You're hungry and tired and you're about to spend $30-$50 on takeout food rather than cook yourself. Do you care that much about a $.50-$1 saving that you search for food search engines on your meta food search engine search engine? In insurance, a market where people are much more price conscious, there are several different price comparison sites which all aggregate slightly different subsets of the insurers.
- iliketosleep 9y agoThat's a good point, these markets are still in their infancy and windows of opportunities will open up. This is the upside to all this "distruption".