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There is a middle ground between a carefully curated list of vendors and any company can fill out some paperwork and signup.
by HWR_14 2y ago
There is a middle ground between a carefully curated list of vendors and any company can fill out some paperwork and signup.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoTechnology and automation (especially software) allow 90% of the market to be grabbed by 10% of the sellers, or even 1%. It is tough (seemingly impossible) for the middle ground to exist in this environment.
- drew870mitchell 2y agoWe (us, the people reading here, the demographic building the software and technology and automation) would do well as a community to spend more time on introspection about what ends it serves that tech, which was sometimes promoted as a great equalizer, gets built so often in practice only to make the walls of an aspiring monopolist's fortress more steep with no benefit to anybody else.
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoUnironically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWF74KMRq04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWF74KMRq04 We as an industry are seen as defined by crap/enshitification now. The world gave us good faith, cheered us on, mostly excitedly hyped us. And we picked, by small choice after small choice, this.
- int_19h 2y agoTechnological advancement by itself merely creates the potential for equalization. Whether that potential is actually realized depends on the culture of society, though. You can use the same basic tech to build Star Trek communism or a cyberpunk dystopia.
- bee_rider 2y agoDoes anybody live in that middle ground?
- mananaysiempre 2y agoAmazon ten years ago?
- lazystar 2y agoid argue that amazon is the middle ground; temu has lower quality