Giant companies attained scale by learning from their users, not by thwarting them. The person using technology always knows something about what they need to do and how they want to do it that the designers can *never* anticipate. This is especially true of people who are unlike those designers - people who live on the other side of the world, or the other side of the economic divide, or whose bodies don't work the way that the designers' bodies do:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/benevolent-dictators/#felony-contempt-of-business-model
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