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> Google buys up all the pizza places in your town and stops selling anything but pineapple pizza.

Awesome: great business opportunity to open new pizza places.

Either you make a lot of money from customers, or you sell to Google for more money. If the latter: open yet another place, rinse and repeat.

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Except the fact that opening up new pizza place have a huge upfront cost. Your pizza may need to be pricier too. You thought people are flocking to your new pizza place, but the reality is that most people just want to not get hungry, and will rather chomp down pineapple pizza while being surveiled, than spending more for non-pineapple pizza.

Look, I love making a analogies. Just that they have scale, and competing against it is hard.

> [...] but the reality is that most people just want to not get hungry, and will rather chomp down pineapple pizza while being surveiled, than spending more for non-pineapple pizza.

In that case, who are we to judge the company that gives people what they want?

People don't know what they want. $VENDOR knows that and shovels whatever shit they can mass produce into their customers face.

I, for one, still wouldn't care one bit. The problem is, this drags us all down eventually. I don't wan't shit shoveled into my face.

Who knows better than people?

It's not what they want, it's the minimum of what they'll tolerate.

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