Re:DoorDash to Slash 1,250 Jobs to Pare Back Rising Costs
by dspillett on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:46AM
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> Gonna be very unpopular here
While there are some that will disagree, that is really not an unpopular opinion, aussuming
> like Uber and DoorDash
stays in there as a caveat, with
> If you can't be profitable without eliminating all the competition … first … then you shouldn't exist
being the salient point.
Disrupting by being better, and the market evolving to account for the new method being better, is fine. That is one of the ways we improve over time. Disrupting by killing everything else even if your method is not generally better in the long run is a different proposition entirely.
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As side note: I do object to “ponzi scheme” becoming a phrase that just means any scam where someone wins and everyone else likely loses. This may be scammy behaviour, but it definitely isn't a ponzi scheme.
While there are some that will disagree, that is really not an unpopular opinion, aussuming
> like Uber and DoorDash
stays in there as a caveat, with
> If you can't be profitable without eliminating all the competition … first … then you shouldn't exist
being the salient point.
Disrupting by being better, and the market evolving to account for the new method being better, is fine. That is one of the ways we improve over time. Disrupting by killing everything else even if your method is not generally better in the long run is a different proposition entirely.
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As side note: I do object to “ponzi scheme” becoming a phrase that just means any scam where someone wins and everyone else likely loses. This may be scammy behaviour, but it definitely isn't a ponzi scheme.