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Centralization works for a reason: It makes prices go down. For a company like Google, Twitter or Facebook it matters very little if they have 100, 1.000 milli
by bumbada 6y ago
Centralization works for a reason: It makes prices go down.
For a company like Google, Twitter or Facebook it matters very little if they have 100, 1.000 million users or 2.000, or 3.000. Most of the cost is in salaries and the salaries are the same because the technology is scalable.
Once they have the market of hundreds or billions of users, almost nobody can compete with them because even paying enormous salaries the price per user is very small.
The problem with decentralization is that they don't have scale, so it is a serious problem just paying a single engineer salary.
- f430 6y agoThey were built in the early days of computing but now our smartphones are far more powerful than desktops of 5 to 10 years ago. Moore's law suggests that this trend will continue (unless purposefully downgrading performance to increase repurchases) and with 6G coming, we shouldn't need to be so dependent on the classic datacenter-client architecture wich is the very source of FANG's power. The new Internet and decentralization completely shifts this power-balance towards the masses. It is democratization of our data instead of being arbitraged by FANG who pay pennies on the dollar to resell it to others.