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  • Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    It’s pretty funny how most of these things play out. It’s always the same - disruptive service opens up and is cheaper than everything else. People complain they don’t pay workers enough. They start paying workers more, increasing prices to be able to afford it. People complain it’s too expensive.

    You can’t have a cheap product while paying the employees lots of money in a service where the majority of the money goes to the employee.

    • hh93@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Not to forget that that “disruptive service” usually opens up while losing a shitton of money, too just to see which competitor has the deepest pockets - and then has to make up for the money lost eventually after they became the last company standing in that field

      isn’t unregulated capitalism great?