Comment by duskdozer
4 days ago
Google buys up all the pizza places in your town and stops selling anything but pineapple pizza. The delivery driver also stays and watches to make sure you don't take the pineapple off and if you do, you're banned from buying Google Pizza anymore. It's a long drive to find a pizza place that isn't owned by Google.
> 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.
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?
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