• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    6 hours ago

    We’re at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.

    The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.

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      6 hours ago

      What are you going on about?

      I don’t work in a space with a monopoly.

      My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and earn money while doing so.

      Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.