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Interesting idea. 1. Economies of scale. When manufacturing physical goods, they often happen. Digital goods are produced by individual artisans or relative
by csense 14y ago
Interesting idea.
1. Economies of scale. When manufacturing physical goods, they often happen. Digital goods are produced by individual artisans or relatively small groups, and large teams can actually be counterproductive (As cited in the legendary "The Mythical Man-month".)
2. Demand structure. There's a limit to the amount of food each person can eat. But the demand for digital goods is unlimited, especially given that some digital goods enable the creation of entirely new classes of digital goods, and other digital goods don't require human attention span to consume (think of how much you don't think about all the engineering work that went into your OS.)