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0 pointsTeMPOraL6y ago0 comments

Because one totally destroys the other.

Slave labour, selling poison or dumping waste into rivers are all superior business models too, but that doesn't mean they should exist in a civilized society.

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Nasrudith6y ago

The train also destoyed the horse drawn wagon train for bulk land transport.

Just because it totally destroys another business model doesn't mean it is wrong. Felony interference with a business model protectionism isn't good for societies. Historically this stagnant "stability" gets them lapped and forced into the modern world if lucky or conquered if not no matter how vigorously they insist that it is the only and right way.

TeMPOraLOP6y ago

Of course. I'm not saying displacing business models is bad per se. I'm saying that just because one business model can displace a different one, doesn't immediately mean it's good. Plenty of business models are morally bankrupt, and I believe "free but subsidized by advertising" is such, by virtue of advertising itself[0] being morally bankrupt.

[0] - as seen today; not the imaginary "informing customers about what's on the market" form, but the real "everyone stuck in a shouting contest of trying to better manipulate customers" form.

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Nasrudith6y ago

The train also destoyed the horse drawn wagon train for bulk land transport.

TeMPOraLOP6y ago

[0] - as seen today; not the imaginary "informing customers about what's on the market" form, but the real "everyone stuck in a shouting contest of trying to better manipulate customers" form.

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