[kjellsbells]

I mean yes, look at Corey Quinn [1] for example. He has built an entire career out of the fact that cloud billing trips people up.

(Generally, tech seems to skate by on creating insanely complicated things, knowing that given enough pain, people will start blogging about their solutions, ie effectively outsourcing the cost and effort of doing something about it.)

[1] https://www.lastweekinaws.com/

[danny_codes]

Tech skates by on monopoly/oligopoly power. This arises because big players are allowed to buy competitors whenever they like. And since they are already monopolies/duopolies, they have unlimited money for such purposes. Killing off WhatsApp was chump change for Facebook.

We essentially don’t have monopoly enforcement in the US anymore