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> This kind of thing should be illegal. That's a bit silly. Some people think pineapple doesn't belong on pizza, but that means you should avoid buying pineap
by eru 8mo ago
> This kind of thing should be illegal.
That's a bit silly.
Some people think pineapple doesn't belong on pizza, but that means you should avoid buying pineapple pizza, not outlaw it.
- Tepix 8mo agoIf you have a monopoly, different rules apply.
- eru 8mo agoGoogle doesn't exactly have a monopoly here.
- duskdozer 8mo agoGoogle buys up all the pizza places in your town and stops selling anything but pineapple pizza. The delivery driver also stays and watches to make sure you don't take the pineapple off and if you do, you're banned from buying Google Pizza anymore. It's a long drive to find a pizza place that isn't owned by Google.
- eru 8mo ago> Google buys up all the pizza places in your town and stops selling anything but pineapple pizza. Awesome: great business opportunity to open new pizza places. Either you make a lot of money from customers, or you sell to Google for more money. If the latter: open yet another place, rinse and repeat.
- bentinata 8mo agoExcept the fact that opening up new pizza place have a huge upfront cost. Your pizza may need to be pricier too. You thought people are flocking to your new pizza place, but the reality is that most people just want to not get hungry, and will rather chomp down pineapple pizza while being surveiled, than spending more for non-pineapple pizza. Look, I love making a analogies. Just that they have scale, and competing against it is hard.
- eru 8mo ago> [...] but the reality is that most people just want to not get hungry, and will rather chomp down pineapple pizza while being surveiled, than spending more for non-pineapple pizza. In that case, who are we to judge the company that gives people what they want?
- tosti 8mo agoPeople don't know what they want. $VENDOR knows that and shovels whatever shit they can mass produce into their customers face. I, for one, still wouldn't care one bit. The problem is, this drags us all down eventually. I don't wan't shit shoveled into my face.
- eru 8mo agoWho knows better than people?
- duskdozer 8mo agoIt's not what they want, it's the minimum of what they'll tolerate.