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Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tec... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:42PM (#35189117)
> the capital class has been able to take a bigger piece of the profit pie without sharing.

In the current world, where do you think a lot of the capital class is able to get their capital?

Technological progress, and especially the Internet, has made much bigger markets out of what were previously lots of little markets, and now th "winner take all/most" dynamics make it so that where you previously could have, for example, lots of "winners" in every city (e.g. local newspapers selling classified ads), where now Google, FB and Amazon gobble up most ad dollars - I think someone posted that Amazon's ad business alone is bigger than all US (maybe more than that?) newspaper ad businesses.

Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tec... by B1FF_PSUVM on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:21PM (#35190926)
The "star system" probably started when the printing press made advertising leaflets affordable.

(Yes, they were printing bibles; radio and TV and the internet originally were going to be educational ...)