But the degree to which you could organize something like that was always, similarly, limited
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Groupon was... not that. It wasn't a true "bulk discount", it was a promotional discount - often to below cost
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It scaled up the way true group buying didn't because it mostly was funded by venture capital giving vendors big up front payments
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There's always some obscuring done that way to try to blur the lines of what's actually happening
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The Internet allows loopholes in laws intended for small-scale exceptions to be exploited to create massive businesses
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Like AirBnb pretends all they're doing is letting you find friends to crash with when you're all at the same convention
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It's just the same Problem of Scale as when we first started dealing with file sharing
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"Is it wrong to copy a song onto a mix tape for a friend? Then how is it wrong to copy it 10 million times on the day the album comes out"
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"Would your landlord come after you bc your friend crashed in your spare room for a week? Then why not rent it out every week to strangers"
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"Am I a thief bc I tweet other people's jokes for my friends to enjoy? Then why can't I start a whole media platform on that basis"
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Slug lines, btw, are a genuinely cool idea. They won't take off though bc there's no good way to make massive profits
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If you try to scale it up it becomes a taxi immediately - switches from "Im already going this way" to "I'll go where you want for a fare"
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