> The whole story of buying pizzas from a normal pizza shop for $20 and selling them for $18 through your “app” is the stereotypical example of the current .com

> The whole story of buying pizzas from a normal pizza shop for $20 and selling them for $18 through your “app” is the stereotypical example of the current .com implosion Lets not have this be the lesson that people learn, please. This is not an actual strategy - think of it more as a coupon. There is plenty of reason to think that with economies of scale a single company COULD win out, not have to raise prices and keep on trucking, a la google/fb in the advertising space. The problem is when multiple people realize this it become a cold war-esque capital arms race. That there is absolutely nowhere else within the economy to make a decent return on investment at a lower level of risk is what is driving all of this. We have 0% interest rates everywhere, and tons and tons of money sloshing around. Its completely conceivable to me that the best thing to do to grow the economy at this point is to do UBI. That there has been no inflation while the government pumps TRILLIONS of dollars into the economy means none of that money is getting spent within the economy, just thrown away to prop up massive company debtloads.