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>It's very much an information problem. One needs a company that can go do all the research and tell their readers what stuff is well made and good quality. Th
by ginko 2y ago
>It's very much an information problem. One needs a company that can go do all the research and tell their readers what stuff is well made and good quality.
This role used to be filled by reputable stores.
- card_zero 2y agoCurating stuff means: You aren't offering most of the things people can imagine, You aren't offering all the latest trendy stuff, important in the moment, You're paying people to check the quality of your limited range of dusty goods. (Wikipedia has solved this problem by having an army of 120,000 active and mostly conscientious volunteer editors, but that's some kind of magic trick or luck that cannot be deliberately copied into other domains.)
- ghaff 2y agoSmall business stores mostly had lousy selection and wanted to sell you what they had in stock for the most part. Yes, you had some niche labor of love businesses, but those were the minority. Information used to be really hard to come by outside of a few sources like Consumer Reports.