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We should break up most of them. Conglomerates and market concentration are bad for innovation and competition in general.
by eli_gottlieb 8y ago
We should break up most of them. Conglomerates and market concentration are bad for innovation and competition in general.
- toasterlovin 8y agoThings are early. IMO we should just see what happens. Tech is changing fast enough that all of this concern could be moot in 10 years. And I say that as someone who thinks Facebook (and social media, in general) is a cancer on our species.
- eli_gottlieb 8y agoThings can change quickly, you're right, but if the long-term secular trend is towards market concentration, then merely putting one giant monopoly in the place of another doesn't provide the kind of "change" we need for market competition to spur innovation and serve society.
- kazinator 8y agoNope! What we should break is the fingers of the idiot users that foist this garbage onto the rest of us. It's hardly Big Company's fault that one non-employee X of Big Company forces another non-employee Y of Big Company to use something. It's X who is instigating it.