One is the name of the monopoly, and when you see things like XYZ One, the brand is actually One, and whichever XYZ coming before it is merely a product, not the vice versa.
Great, more mindless drones without a wide picture of things in their heads, way to go for the modern slave drivers. Preheating for predefined occupations assigned at birth, the digital caste way.
Ever noticed how the most agenda-aligned comments are always at the top? HN has become the most disgusting indoctrination platform in the whole IT, and the day will come when it'll burn up in colourful flames.
A sea of change, my ass! Better be prepared for the ocean of backlash for all the crap you're being peddling.
The desire to own all the information to own the whole world.
And it's obvious that this is not "his" statement, but a statement from the mouth of a puppet who is absolutely dependent on spreading the agenda in order to maintain his status quo of an "independent billionaire"
You might want to work on extending the span of your attention, there's pretty dismal future ahead if people have trouble extracting the meaning from a few lines of text.
"Does google rig the system to squash its rivals and hurt us?"
Well, this is one kind of modern skepticism I particularly like: Does gravity kill if one jumps off a cliff? Is a sphere round? Is it really bad if we give up our freedom? Who are we to think for ourselves?
When questions like this are asked, the damage is already done. And it seems like it's already beyond repair.
> When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?
It's when big investors decided they'd better keep a selected few companies on life support while they kill fair competition with their suicidal price dumping, and then milk the monopolies they inevitably become.
They don't lay off because they're on their deathbeds, they do so because of automation and optimization. No need for that many mechanical turks.
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