Jason Gorman on Nostr: In a keynote I gave a few years ago, "How The West Was Lost", I described today's ...
In a keynote I gave a few years ago, "How The West Was Lost", I described today's software platforms as "engines of inequality". Time was, if you wanted a million customers, you had to employ thousands and thousands of staff. Thanks to computers, a business can service a million customers with a few hundred workers. Do those workers get paid more? Are the cost savings passed on to the customer? Does the town get a new hospital? Or does someone get an upgrade from a superyacht to a megayacht?
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