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I mean... If you think it is hard to compete with them now, just wait til you have to field the size team this would require. I'm sympathetic. I think I even
by taeric 2y ago
I mean... If you think it is hard to compete with them now, just wait til you have to field the size team this would require.
I'm sympathetic. I think I even agree. Policy will be tough to craft here, sadly.
- drdeca 2y agoWhat if the law says "social media companies with more than [quantity] in revenue" ? Or, something to that effect?
- taeric 2y agoThis is what I would immediately suspect to start. Probably a good start, even. Does run into complications of jurisdiction and hazards of growth. None reasons not to do something.
- jprete 2y agoCustomer service is something that doesn't scale well, so requiring good customer service is probably an advantage to small players.
- taeric 2y agoThis is also the intersection of customer service not really working at large scale, and residual payments (royalties) not working at absolute scale.
- a_random_canuck 2y agoI think this is a major (the only?) reason these internet companies are even successful. Because they just ignore all these costs that don’t scale well that ordinary companies should have.
- taeric 2y agoI think that is a touch strong. Though, I agree that largely nobody really factors in costs of scale, as absurd scale just isn't something that makes sense. This is true in physics as much as it is in economics. Things that work in one scale do not in another. Things that work in changing scale don't work in fixed scale.