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It must be tough to work in an industry where your livelihood depends on an entity which you have no meaningful relationship with. Amazon sellers, Youtube vlog
by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It must be tough to work in an industry where your livelihood depends on an entity which you have no meaningful relationship with.
Amazon sellers, Youtube vloggers, Twitch streamers, Instagram dropshippers, etc etc. You can run those businesses on other platforms, like eBay and Vimeo, but they will almost certainly fail if you do.
But if you don't, you might wake up one morning without a business. Too stressful for me: maybe a start would be expecting contracts rather than EULAs for people who pay 3rd-parties to run a business on their platform.
- mike_d 6y agoMy fathers friend owned a gas station in a small town that was on the route out of town to a large packing plant. One day the company was bought out by a larger competitor and within a few weeks the flow of trucks and employees dried up along the road. He went out of business about 6 months later. This isn't a new thing, and we should stop pretending like the internet somehow invented parasitic businesses.
- viraptor 6y agoWhy is that parasitic? If you provide a gas station and the truck drivers find it cost effective to refuel there, that sounds symbiotic?
- saagarjha 6y agoCommensalism, I guess?
- nightcracker 6y agoIt is parasitic because of the power dynamic. If you close business the truck drivers are largely unaffected. Vice versa and you are also out of business.
- thomastjeffery 6y agoGP isn't talking about the relationship between the gas station and customers. They are talking about the relationship between the gas station and the business that acquired it.
- ozim 6y agoYeah basically "pro" users should be ruled as employees of the platform like Uber drivers.