THE business plan for every new company created in the last two decades is exploitative by design, and people are fed up with it. The problem is that the relati

THE business plan for every new company created in the last two decades is exploitative by design, and people are fed up with it. The problem is that the relationships between the person consuming, the person producing, and the business is organized wrong. The plan is for the business to insert itself between people and extract a tax on their interaction instead of collecting a fee for providing a service. Technology has accelerated this trend by reducing the cost of this automated relationship management. This is a gross inversion of normal relationships between people. I hope that Substack's model becomes more popular and people choose to eject exploitative mediators and force them to be third party service providers where they belong. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30420113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30420113