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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
That's sort of the problem with the internet.
If you have a good idea for something that people will actually happily pay for, some jackass will come along and offer it for free just so he can make 1% of what you could have made. Craigslist makes a few million, but he killed a near billion dollar industry to do it.
For example, giant tube sites make decent money, but other non-tube sites with the same Alexa rank are valued close to the billions. Pretty shitty business if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong, it's the way it is these days and I totally accept it, but to tout it as smart business and good business is a bit silly.
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Yeah but these things are irrelevant. The market was headed there anyways, and if it hadn't been Craigslist it would have been someone else.
Being pissed off at these people is a waste of time, crying for what used to be or might have been is a waste of time. Spend your time trying to figure out where things are going, and be there waiting for it to show up.
Do we cry about how many bank teller jobs were lost because of ATMs? How many clock and watch repairmen were put out of business by digital timepieces? How many blacksmiths went out of business when people traded their horses for cars?
Do AT&T executives sit around and cry about the days when they could charge $1 per minute for international calls? That's something that people can do today, over the internet, for free, but AT&T is still in business, because it evolved.
To beat a dead horse, "adapt or die", is just the way it is.