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by martynr 840 days ago
Unlikely to be a popular question in this forum but in my view the most important topic we need to reflect on is “are we really better off with these services?” - obviously at face value there is utility or there wouldn’t be the market penetration but the externalities and issues of market dominance are becoming more apparent and pressing.

And if we agree that better solutions are needed then the question becomes “how do we create the market conditions that support those better outcomes?”

I’d really like to see kk reflect on this article with 10 years hindsight and see if he remains optimistic.

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I was thinking something similar. Yes, a lot has happened. But which metric can we use to determine whether this was a successful decade?