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by jshen 1609 days ago
If you’re suggesting that we need garbage that exploits people to have things like eBay … well, let’s just say I don’t agree.
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I'm suggesting that a large part of the phenomenon you're describing as "garbage that exploits people" is caused by the asymmetry of information found in new market technologies, and that as those technologies mature, those asymmetries dissipate. And that many market technologies we today recognize as good and wholesome started had that kind of bubble phenomenon when they first appeared.
Nope, it’s human nature.