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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by Hammershaft on Monday March 15, 2021 @09:49PM (#26471940)
Their method of making money has directly contributed to a nosedive in the quality of their products. I frankly consider this a kind of rarely documented market failure.
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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by jimmyvalmer on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:13PM (#26472087)
There's just one robust metric for "quality," and that's market cap, which is generally tied to current and future profits.
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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by Hammershaft on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:54PM (#26472386)
By what reasoning?
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Re:Reddit Degraded Performance by ngokevin on Thursday March 18, 2021 @01:41PM (#26505344)
Brainwashed capitalism reasoning :D

(America at least) conditioned to think market caps and stock markets and GDP are the only meaningful metric.

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