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Likely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise. If there's value to be had by everyone using the same
by dllthomas 8y ago
Likely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise. If there's value to be had by everyone using the same thing, while everyone wants that one thing to be a little different than what others want, a lot of people will "want alternatives" that they can't really have regardless of how the provider behaves.
- stcredzero 8y agoLikely, although "everyone is dissatisfied, but not enough to leave" can also be a result of compromise. That's a distortion. It's more like, lots of people are dissatisfied, but all of the alternatives are economic/network-effect suicide. It's more like people living and working in the crappy mining town, because the only alternatives are like living as a hobo in the woods.
- dllthomas 8y agoI'm not sure if you're saying that what I'm saying is a distortion of the situation, or that the compromise represents monopolistic distortion of the market. I think the former? If so, that's a much stronger reading than I intended; I wasn't saying "this is what's happening" but rather "this is a thing that happens in general, it may be part of the explanation here, I don't know how to really pick it apart."