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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ironically, leveraging this kind of tactic is what allowed Google, Amazon and Apple and Microsoft to become as huge as they did, as fast as they did.

Got a whole bunch of lines of business that can functionally subsidize other ventures, so they can make a push for market share.

But of course this doesn't take too long to turn your whole economy into oligopoly, and thus your society into oligarchy... at best.

I... I think Gabe really just isn't as fundamentally awful of a person as most other tech company heads.

Yeah, he's got a yacht, but he could be so, so much fucking worse...