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I understand how the market works and how the Gompertz curve looks for new product lifecycles. I have a (professionally useless) masters degree in that.

My question is, what’s your solution?

The shareholders/stock market (largely represented by the board) will replace any CEO who doesn’t employ patterns (dark, fu, whatever) to maximize revenue. And private companies can’t raise capital easily nor can they give Options/RSUs to employees.

We are in the current state due to market equilibrium driven by people’s willingness to pay, and since I personally don’t like meta or Zuck I use Reddit on Brave + Mastodon + Dev.to for my social media dopamine hits. OOP could do the same.

I don’t know how old you are but growing up in the 90s I certainly remember (parents) paying for many of these things we now take for granted. The net negative result is that independent journalism is dead.



> My question is, what’s your solution?

Legislation around mergers and acquisitions. Enforcement of existing anti-trust legislation.


That’s being done now. Can’t think of the last time the SEC didn’t sue to block an acquisition in the last 3-4 years with a tech company.


Then the legislation isn't expansive enough.




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