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Or perhaps customers / users? Just like Wikipedia put classic encyclopedias out of business, but wasn't really a financially win for anyone.

• stbede 2mo ago
  I won financially. Encyclopedia sets were expensive.
  • eru 2mo ago
    Your savings are real, but they don't show up in GDP or a profit-and-loss statement of any company.
    • KSteffensen 2mo ago
      The cost of buying the encyclopedia becomes disposable income to be used on other consumer goods. In that sense in shows up in lots of other companies profit-and-loss statements.
      • eru 2mo ago
        Maybe, but that's very diffuse and hard to attribute to Wikipedia. And it would show up in real GDP, not necessarily in nominal GDP.