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But if they can choose between saving 10% on infrastructure or adding 5% ad revenue (through more optimizations), the additional revenue is worth more. Just r
by dx034 6y ago
But if they can choose between saving 10% on infrastructure or adding 5% ad revenue (through more optimizations), the additional revenue is worth more.
Just running Facebook, Instagram & Co as a platform would probably be much cheaper than $8 per user.
- ForHackernews 6y agoAbsolutely. Profligacy is often the rational course in a capitalist system.
- thrasos 6y agoso true
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoIn any system, there will be a tension between shrinking cost/benefit, and spending more to achieve better benefit-cost. This has nothing to do with capitalism. It's a fundamental aspect of systems where there is a non-fixed relationship between investment and return (i.e. almost all systems of any kind).
- ForHackernews 6y agoThe notion that "[financial] investment and [financial] return" are the only two factors worth considering in "all systems of any kind" is an artefact of capitalist thinking.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoThat notion is something absent from both text and subtext of my comment. You are the one who inserted it. Investment and cost come in many forms other than the financial.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoThat's assuming you have the add inventory a some point reducing costs make sense