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Really this is a problem with any gigantic platform that hosts thousands of people's livelihoods. Apple, Google (not just the Play store; ads, etc.), YouTube (p
by _bxg1 7y ago
Really this is a problem with any gigantic platform that hosts thousands of people's livelihoods. Apple, Google (not just the Play store; ads, etc.), YouTube (people who make a living off of their channels), Twitch, Uber, Amazon's store, the list goes on.
It's not that (most of) these companies are egregiously terrible at being fair, percentage-wise. It's that their scales are so incomprehensibly massive, and their business interests sufficiently high-level, that people will always fall through the cracks. Always. Entire lives comprise a rounding error. And then in most cases those small businesses have no alternative; they're simply shut down. This is a problem endemic to any sufficiently large platform monopoly (or duopoly, etc.).