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by caballeto 1725 days ago
Businesses which rely on Facebook, as their sole distribution channel could get out of business if Facebook goes out. A lot of economical value will be lost.
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Maybe they should not have a single point of failure. FAANG is not good for our economy’s resilience.
Many of these businesses are small single-person operations with little tech understanding that are using, for example, FB marketplace. They wouldn't even know what you meant by "single point of failure."
How about “putting all your eggs in one basket”?

If this is the event that teaches someone that Facebook is not the Internet, that’s a benefit to us all.

Allowing copyrights to expire on pre-1950 creative works would also destroy billions of dollars of "economic value", but that doesn't mean it would be bad for humanity.

We should be careful to not take our values from a spreadsheet.