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what happens in 5 years time when Curb has loss-led to the top? the exact problem again, only possibly worse. maybe this time Curb learns the lesson of Uber and
by permo-w 3y ago
what happens in 5 years time when Curb has loss-led to the top? the exact problem again, only possibly worse. maybe this time Curb learns the lesson of Uber and finds a way to anti-compete away the possibility of another "Curb"
this idea that we can't have products within a competitive sphere that are publicly-owned is completely stupid. if they're bad, people won't use them, and if they're good, it will force private competition to get better. there's a (Murdoch-pushed) idea that that's unfair competition. but who is it unfair on? it's unfair on the capital holders. it's not unfair on the workers. it's not unfair on the consumers. it's just unfair on the people in society who extract their wealth from the people who do all the actual work