The business lesson is if you are entirely dependent on somebody else you are not in a good position. Especially if your interests aren't aligned. When people

The business lesson is if you are entirely dependent on somebody else you are not in a good position. Especially if your interests aren't aligned. When people are banned, it's the platform deciding the reputational risk of association isn't worth the money you bring in. Given reputation impacts can be huge - it's hard to see how you'd ever be the right side of that equation. Even worse, the platform may decide it's not even economic to make sure each banning is fair.... Ultimately I suspect the only way to rebalance the balance of power is to use collective power. So having large number of friends on the platform that will campaign on your behalf, taking out insurance ( another pooled method ), or even having formal Unions. In essence that puts some of the economic cost of getting the decisions right onto the platform users ( as the friends/union does the work, and makes the case ). Pooled insurance has a similar economic basis ( platform users bear the cost of the insurance ).