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I wonder when this will happen to google and facebook. Happend to Xerox Labs, then Bell Labs/lucent. It's hard to imagine google and facebook being ghosts fr
by segmondy 12y ago
I wonder when this will happen to google and facebook. Happend to Xerox Labs, then Bell Labs/lucent. It's hard to imagine google and facebook being ghosts from the past, but everything must end at some point right?
- a3n 12y agoAnd Microsoft. When a company gets big enough, the people who operate the machine that is the company become more prominent than the people that do what the company is supposedly in existence for. Because when a company gets that big, the sole reason it exists is to make money, and what it does to make money is incidental. In that sense, Google is exactly the same as Kroger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroger Every large billion dollar company is doomed to be a large billion dollar company.