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There's a lot to unpack in this article, but the key idea is the "myth of big" and that small is beautiful. It should be no surprise that Big-Tech succeeds in p
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
There's a lot to unpack in this article, but the key idea is the "myth
of big" and that small is beautiful. It should be no surprise that
Big-Tech succeeds in part by creating its own powerful mythology. All
giant organisations, nations states too, build myths of unique
competence, infallibility, and exceptionalism. At the same time it
hardly needs saying that scale brings inefficiency, corruption,
sluggishness, and insensitivity. If it weren't for protectionist
measures in place to sustain big monopolies they'd be torn asunder in
real competitive conditions.
- jseliger 3y ago"the key idea is the "myth of big" and that small is beautiful" Based on a cmd-f, I don't see the words "myth" or "beautiful" in the article, and Luu writes: It's easy to name ways in which economies of scale benefit the user, but this doesn't mean that we should assume that economies of scale dominate diseconomies of scale in all areas. Although it's beyond the scope of this post, if we're going to talk about whether or not users are better off if companies are larger or smaller, we should look at what gets better when companies get bigger and what gets worse, not just assume that everything will get better just because some things get better (or vice versa).
- nonrandomstring 3y ago5 + 4 3 * 3 10 - 1 sqrt(81) I can't see the number 9 anywhere above. Can you find it?