@Ruby@hellsite.site @haskal @alasaarela@equel.social It's even worse than that: startups are *specifically designed to be* corporate overlords. The whole model exists very specifically to breed baby monopolists. That is its sole purpose.

That's why "customer acquisition" is where so much of the VC money goes, and why they love "social" stuff - it allows them to create network effects (ie. lock-in). It's all about "dominating a market".

Startups were never a grassroots anti-corporate thing. They were always just the foot in the door for *different* corporations to gain power, exploiting naive enthusiastic young folks in the process of doing so.