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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
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.
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I never cried about it. I wrote that's just how it is and I accept it.
Anyway, the examples you used were based on new technology phasing out older technology which is not really an apt analogy. The computer replacing the typewriter is not the same as someone giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free content so he can make a few thousand a month when before he started giving it away for free, he could have made tens of thousand a month with that same content that he has now devalued. The market didn't devalue it, the businessman did. If it's smart business these days to devalue your own product yourself, then I may need to go back to business school.
My point again in case you missed it. I accept the way it is, but to claim it's good business or smart business is pretty stupid. What these authors are actually describing is a SHRINKING economy. If the readers believe that there is more opportunity in a shrinking economy, then they need to brush up on their economics.