Dan Luu on Nostr: Are there fundamental reasons that a company the size of FB can't provide much better ...
Are there fundamental reasons that a company the size of FB can't provide much better support than they do?
The most common explanation I've heard is that support isn't affordable, but I don't find this plausible based the profit FB-sized companies make per user. If you just naively look at how much you could pay support people, it's quite a bit, not including things like diverting money from the ~$50B that's allegedly been spent on the metaverse.
A somewhat more plausible argument I heard is
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