If the cost exceeds the benefit, that's a reason to not do something.

tremon · 2025-07-31T11:36:13 1753961773

But no one is forcing you to myopically express that benefit as solely "increase shareholder value", that's a choice.

hobs · 2025-07-31T10:55:15 1753959315

If you want to operate at "dominant player in the industry" there's a lot of reasons you have to do stuff that has reasons not to be done, saying "its hard" isn't a good enough excuse if you want to get the lions share of the market.

HPsquared · 2025-07-31T11:30:55 1753961455

Dominant players can also afford to do a lot of things without immediate payoff, e.g. Google, Bell Labs.

johnnyanmac · 2025-07-31T17:59:24 1753984764

Somehow I don't think the billion dollar monopoly on video hosting is worried about doing anything more than serving adverts at this point. So let's just enshittify the product until we get broken up or a competitor somehow rises.