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by spgorbatiuk 4 days ago
The value was never really in the building, it was just hidden by how expensive building used to be. When making the thing was the hard part, you could mistake "I built it" for "I have a business." Now that the build is cheap, that illusion is gone, which is uncomfortable but clarifying, and sighs building something OTHER people want is still arguably hard...