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You can love it or hate it all you want, the important thing to internalize is that this is a feature, not a bug of doing things at scale.

There's no way to engineer it such that you don't get to live in this reality. Be it tech companies, marketplaces, politics, revolutionary movements; once you reach a critical mass of people, all meaningful change looks like this.

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That is before a smaller and nimbler movement, company or entity surpasses the now large, slow-moving and fossilized incumbent, which then starts the gradual process into irrelevance.

And then the smaller, nimbler company itself scales to the point that it resembles the former incumbent, and the cycle begins anew.

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