• Viri4thus@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    Richard Wolf had a very good take on all of these Silicon Valley “disruptors”. It’s basically been the neoliberal US american MO for the past quarter century:

    Step 1: get a bunch VC money by promising the moon

    Step 2: “disrupt” by undercutting the established moon due to lack of regulation. Even though it’s an inferior product, it’s VC subsidised, so it’s cheaper than the established businesses.

    Step 3: due to lack of regulation, your business drives established operators to bankruptcy. This is basically dumping but the regulation hasn’t caught up.

    Step 4: become the monopoly and suck as much money as possible from your customers to generate “shareholder value”

    • Coyote_sly@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      American business practices summed up for pretty much my entire lifetime right here. No wonder we live in such a shit hole - society as a whole has mortgaged and undercut for an entire generation.