Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by woah on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:54PM
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There is no secret conspiracy stopping cooperatives from working. They simply do not supply a large portion of the products and services that people want, due to the fact that they are by definition not set up to do so.
Who are you angry at? You are yelling into the wind.
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by panstromek on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:57PM
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If all these 3 are true, then that seems to me like a definition of a monopoly.
Specifically the condition 3 is practically never true in well functioning market. If you're successful, you'll be copied and you'll have competitors, so you always have to be a step ahead. Maintaining the status quo is how you slowly become irrelevant
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by t-writescode on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:11PM
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Some people just like going to their favorite chain restaurant, bar, corner store, etc.
Not everything is a fight.
Re:DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM
by panstromek on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:10AM
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It seems pretty bizarre to pick restaurants and bars as an example, that's insanely competitive market. It's quite literally a fight for survival, restaurants go out of business all the time here. (Central Europe).
I currently watch the exact case from the comment above in our street - new coffee place showed up, and the old one, which kept the status quo for very long time is now left empty as people go to the new one instead.
It's also a good example of how growing and merging into larger chains is a working defense strategy for the market share threat.
Therein lies the problem.
Capitalists believe these two things are exclusionary to one another. They believe that you cannot have an unsuccessful product line, or "status quo" and still be successful. They want to see comfy upward trending lines on their charts and graphs.
But nobody stopped to consider that;
1) If the business is operating with positive cashflow, and,
2) If the business is meeting it's commitment to consumers, shareholders, and employees, and,
3) If the business has no direct existential threat to it's market share, then;
That business is successful. By your own definition. Stop trying to take over the world. It's selfish, unsustainable, and pedantic. Support your workers. Well. Put value back into the economy. Stop being a greedy POS.