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Exactly. The tech bubble worships at the altar of sacred, almighty "scale," and then wonders why things like this happen. Not everything scales. And almost ev
by reaperducer 4y ago
Exactly.
The tech bubble worships at the altar of sacred, almighty "scale," and then wonders why things like this happen.
Not everything scales. And almost every time tech tries to reinvent the wheel at scale, it fails, or makes things worse.
- hakfoo 4y agoI always figured the endgame is to get the scalers into industries that scale well, and then build the non-scaling factors as peripherals. For example, I could imagine a hyper-scale firm selling exceptionally generic standardized clothes, or furnishings, and that feeds an ecosystem of artisans who do alterations and customizations. The scale business avoids the risk of dead stock and having to discount unsellable goods, since its primary drive is price/quality ratio, and the customizers don't have to directly compete with a behemoth that has economies of scale.