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       The 7 Powers Known to Tesla, Pixar, Netflix, Apple, and Twilio
        
       Author : maxwell
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-05-01 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Impassionata wrote:
       | There you have it, laid out the ways in which capitalism has a
       | destructive effect on anything approaching an ideal system.
       | 
       | They want to corner the market and raise prices. That's how they
       | think. That's the desired end-game for these ghosts in the
       | machines, these corporations. Corner the market, raise prices,
       | extract money while delivering the same value.
       | 
       | It's pure shit.
       | 
       | If you're still a fan of unrestrained capitalism in this day and
       | age, you're a moron and a tool of the elite. You're probably a
       | tool of the elite anyway, but at least do yourself the service of
       | chucking the Koolaid into the dust.
        
         | engineer_22 wrote:
         | Keep calm, we've made it out of monopoly control before. It was
         | a different time, but the same problem.
        
           | Impassionata wrote:
           | This is calm, I just think it's important to heckle the
           | delusional so we can identify the stupid beliefs people have.
           | 
           | This being Orange Site it is frequented by a large number of
           | people who live in a fantasy world. Some call it 'Affluenza.'
           | 
           | Hey VCs, the AI are coming for _your jobs!_ and no one will
           | cry when you go obsolete!
           | 
           | Put another way, to solve the 'same problem' we will have to
           | have a large number of people who understand the basic
           | reality of the situation. Those of you downvoting me for
           | presenting this basic reality indicate to me your captivity
           | in self-delusion.
           | 
           | Keep on pretending, HN!
        
         | wutbrodo wrote:
         | Holy cow, did not expect to see this username on HN. hi!
        
           | Impassionata wrote:
           | Hello there! It's nice to be remembered. How, may I ask, are
           | you familiar with my work?
        
       | lotsofpulp wrote:
       | This sounds like a bunch of nonsense. Netflix and Pixar have a
       | cornered resource and high switching costs?
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | Yeah, not sure how any of these things really apply to Twilio
         | either.
         | 
         | I was a major customer of Twilio, among several other similar
         | providers. Maybe if you've built a big interactive something,
         | switching costs were high, but for what we were using them for,
         | it wouldn't take much to switch to a new provider. Twilio's
         | apis are nice, but most others are at least OK, and it's hard
         | to screw up an SMS api (although GSMA has a soap standard
         | that's pretty terrible, wouldn't have used that except that it
         | came with some no cost messaging deals).
         | 
         | That said their strategy of"There is only one true strategy,
         | build products and services for which your customers will pay
         | you." works, cause their service works to get calls and texts
         | to most of the world, most of the time. If you don't do that,
         | or the price is too high, it's easy to leave.
        
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