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I’ve always wondered this. How is there not even one single billionaire who wants to just stick it to an entire industry?
by Waterluvian 3y ago
I’ve always wondered this. How is there not even one single billionaire who wants to just stick it to an entire industry?
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- yieldcrv 3y agoProbably because many wealthy people pride themselves in not printing anything themselves, so the problem stops being noticed
- jrockway 3y agoIt's patents, right? Anyone can build a working printer in their house. Selling it for money is a whole other set of problems.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoThere were solidly working printer designs 20 years ago.
- mynameisash 3y agoSupposedly Mark Cuban is doing this with "Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company". Whether that's what's actually happening, I don't know.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoIt just looks like another middleman. Bringing new manufacturing capacity online or R&D for new medicine that is sold at a low price is the only thing that would help.
- gottorf 3y agoNot every retailer that sits between the manufacturer and the consumer is a middleman. That is, it is literally a middleman, but not in the sense that it necessarily has to take on a rent-seeking, economically harmful role. Most manufacturers don't have the expertise in dealing with retail and don't care to build it up. They stick to what they're good at, which is manufacturing, and let the retailer stick to what they're good at, which is dealing with the whole host of other issues that arise in retail commerce. In a related current development, traditional automakers like Ford are angling to sell directly to the consumer, like Tesla does. People are generally on board with this because dealership experiences do suck often. But once dealers are all driven out of business, it's a good bet that the automaker will benefit from that surplus, not the consumer. It'll be interesting to see.