The overwhelming majority of our industry is simply enjoying an enormous, sustained expansion of ability to create value and charge for it.
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AppAmaGooFaceSoft, for their many faults as organizations, have delivered nothing less than a new industrial age.
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And is this industrial age confined to the titans? NO. This time you can download a steam engine for free and lease your factory for $2/mo.
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And in this tremendous growth in the productive capacity of humanity, some firms sell to other firms rather than to end consumers.
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Is there a word for selling to producers rather than consumers? B2B, sure, but in general "has existed since before capitalism was a thing."
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Is there purpose and value and sustainable businesses and social utility in creating tools which makes firms better? Yes, yes, yes there is.
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And while I do not want to personalize this disagreement, I will point out "selling shovels" is INEVITABLY deployed by an employee.
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It is literally "I choose to sell my labor to a firm. This is right and virtuous. You choose to sell something else to a firm. Unclean!"
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"Selling shovels" also encodes a distaste for "shovel sellers got rich while the 49ers largely did not", which does not analogize to present
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The story goes that 49ers were largely naive yeomen capitalists of the sort that American lore largely celebrates, vs crass commercializers
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People who get "selling shovels" deployed against them today are frequently tiny shops and they sell to rich, sophisticated businesses!
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"You make analytics software? That's selling shovels." What does that even mean when the railroad needs 100,000 of them to build new line.
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