On: How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate ...

[robotresearcher]

The metaphor was broken.

Stage 2: make it easy for everyone to have a railroad by leasing them yours. Lease yours multiple times over, each time for less than it would cost the customer to build a new one.

Stage 3: everyone has a railroad which they rent from you. Collect rent on all railroad activity forever.

[stcredzero → robotresearcher]

How about: Everyone owns a car?

[ehnto → stcredzero]

Where cars are a small Virtual Server, and the VPS provider runs on AWS. Oh no, it was a railroad all along!

[ENGNR → stcredzero]

It always comes back to the car analogy

[spartanatreyu → stcredzero]

rent out the cars

[kuschku → spartanatreyu]

And this is where Uber/Waymo are going.

Welcome, you just reinvented the problem of rent-seeking.

[shaki-dora → kuschku]

“Rent-seeking” has nothing to do with “renting someone a car”, common term notwithstanding.

[kuschku → shaki-dora]

Rent seeking has everything to do with trying to extract a continuous profit out of a resource.

[ci5er → kuschku]

Are you sure?