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by cqqxo4zV46cp 782 days ago
Citation needed.

Do you know what shareholders even are?

Are you in such a tech bubble that you can’t comprehend of an organisation delivering surplus value back to shareholders by just…doing something that people want, and charging for it? It sounds like you think that tech startup hypergrowth followed by enshitification is, like, a given, in every situation.

It isn’t. MOST businesses don’t work this way. Evidently just the ones that you read about.

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Race to the bottom. At some point it becomes natural resource extraction.

How much do cotton shirts cost now? 1-3$?