The rapid growth mindset isn't healthy or sustainable and hasn't been good for us. Yes, the VC funding model almost necessitates it but generates substantial harms. Technical, social, political and ethical debt builds up while active numbers go up, up up. I hope that era is over.
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American corporations are fundamentally growth-obsessed. If it needs to stop growing, it should stop being a corporation and start being a public utility.
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That’s an incredibly optimistic “maybe.” The far more likely outcome is they figure out ways to exploit people with less socioeconomic power.
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I can't predict what they will do, but given the state of inequality in the world, that's not that easy for an ad-financed product.
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Social impact of reaching "bottoms", on income level, users might be very serious, social networks and messengers should be very careful on that. Whatsapp, shared "fakes" and crowds lynching people is example of that.
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