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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara I mean, I think this is an interesting argument, but it comes from a place of status quo. Small businesses worked fine before Facebook existed! The new need for Facebook ads comes out of serious changes to the economy all over.Permalink On twitter.com
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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara Right, the core problem is Facebook, both as a single company and as a class of big tech companies, has larger impacts on the economy than just ad prices that are arguably net bad for small businesses, but that's a hard argument to make! GiladEdelman/1290638891075145734?s=19Permalink On twitter.com
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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara Like... I don't actually think it's Facebook's fault that it is part of a cancerous economy in which money consistently gets sucked up but not returned to local economies, where people then have less money...Permalink On twitter.com
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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara real estate prices are set through international demand driving them up with money outside the community using property as investment and not living space, and so money doesn't flow back that way either, & it's harder to keep open small businesses without cheaper ad space.On twitter.com
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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara Like... at the end of the day Facebook is a fundamental supporting piece of a sea change in our economic system that will eventually destroy all small businesses, but like... the nature of that system is any fix that operates from the inside will kill small businesses...Permalink On twitter.com
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pilhofer GiladEdelman bmorrissey larakiara Yeah, that's the problem. pilhofer/1290641335465267208?s=19Permalink On twitter.com
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