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can't the same be said about horse drawn carriage companies? ford model t came in and damaged their business model.
by kmlx 8y ago
can't the same be said about horse drawn carriage companies? ford model t came in and damaged their business model.
- piokoch 8y agoTrue, the problem is that replacing carriages with cars was a benefit for society, destroying local press is not.
- kmlx 8y agoi would argue that cars, for all their benefits, contributed and still do to global pollution. so you get the benefits of private transport, but also you're indirectly killing off other humans. isn't killing off local press and replacing it with national the same?
- zoul 8y agoI don’t think so. How does Google replace the journalism it helped to destroy? How can a single entity with its own political and other biases replace a vast, diverse network of local journalism?
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- kmlx 8y agowhy does google need to do anything? why is it google's fault that the news publishers don't know how to make money?
- zoul 8y agoThey don’t have to do anything. But then the society may feel like it’s hard to compete in the ad industry and start breaking the oligopoly down. Which, I think, is the main reason Google does this charade.
- 52-6F-62 8y agoThey do know how to make money. Many are even still profitable—just not by a huge margin. Being that many were bought up by conglomerates as a whole, the publishers have had to answer—indirectly—to shareholder demands. Those demands are usually that they want to see continual, even exponential, growth every quarter. When publishing doesn't deliver such exponential growth, their cut of the budget gets reduced and reduced and reduced. They're not failing of their own merit. They're being strangled by several different hands.
- ardy42 8y ago> can't the same be said about horse drawn carriage companies? ford model t came in and damaged their business model. More like Perdue Pharma came in with opioids and turned everyone into junkies that stopped traveling, so the horse drawn carriage companies lost their customers and started to fold. The horse drawn carriage -> cars example suggests a poor mental model, since it makes it seem like all hardship caused by technological change seem like it's due to clear improvements in nearly every respect.
- kmlx 8y agocars brought pollution. a different kind than horse manure, but still pollution. if the news publishers don't know how to make money then they should step aside or consolidate or a million other things.