given that every corporate player gets displaced by another one that operates with the same incentives and structures, and plays by the same rules. as a counte

given that every corporate player gets displaced by another one that operates with the same incentives and structures, and plays by the same rules. as a counterexample: in this case, r/piracy (and reddit more generally) could (in theory, and increasingly in practice) be replaced by p2p tech, which would simply not be controllable, nor have any incentive to appease advertisers. a different example: you could say the same about healthcare providers. a medical startup could displace an established provider, then turn around and push the same rent extraction BS on their customers. Socialized healthcare (while it has its own problems for sure) will not follow the same rules. Read: if something seems sucky yet inevitable, you're probably not questioning enough of your assumptions.