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Big Tech companies make money by extracting value from other parts of economy. Not only developers are normally not the ones creating that value, they are also
by oytis 1y ago
Big Tech companies make money by extracting value from other parts of economy. Not only developers are normally not the ones creating that value, they are also not the only part of the mechanism that extracts it - sales, marketing and legal are at least as important
- Bukhmanizer 1y agoI strongly disagree. Big tech got to be big because they made better products than their competitors, at least initially. I don’t think google/Facebook even used to run ads in the early days.
- oytis 1y agoThey didn't run ads in the early days, they didn't make any money either