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Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by sangnoir on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:00PM (#32119861)
Ad-blocking, like content piracy, are activities that are ignored and can flourish in the fringes. Once they go mainstream and become threats to profit margins, considerable resources will be brought to bear to fight them.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by eurasiantiger on Saturday July 16, 2022 @01:26PM (#32120065)
So the ultimate question is: how do we make sales executives look like a threat to profit margins?
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by sangnoir on Saturday July 16, 2022 @02:07PM (#32120434)
The only way I can think of is to make profits above a certain level unprofitable by taxing them at a high rate with ratcheting without bracketing (i.e. any amount up to $X billion taxed at 10%, but anything greater than $X + $0.01 will be taxed at 60% for the entire amount, resulting in a tax graph that is discontinuous for profit vs. tax). Profits can be tinkered with, so perhaps do that with revenue instead. Then, for companies of a certain size will have no need for sales executives, and will be punished by Wall Street for exceeding optimal sales targets.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by blackoil on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:10PM (#32122794)
This will make whole internet fragmented, why serve customers beyond revenue target, so best products will be available only to most profitable customers.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by sangnoir on Saturday July 16, 2022 @09:55PM (#32123726)
One could say the car industry is also "fragmented": but we have up-market OEMs and Toyota/Honda.
Re:Ask HN: What is with the new URLs on facebook.com? by eurasiantiger on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:29AM (#32124912)
Isn’t this already the common theme in capitalism?