Lot of people have asked that question ever since Amazon (Platform Economy[0]) emerged. But the answer is not simple.
This is why experiments like ONDC[1] (being pushed by the Indian Govt) are interesting. They want an alternative path between producer and consumer with out a middleman (Platform). Similar to how email works based on open protocols. Or UPI which has reduced dependence on Mastercard/Visa.
Sociologist buddy told me few years back (during the first Trump term) they had survey data showing the anger is not economy related. When its jobs and inequality related people tend to move left more than right. More likely it was GFC/Iraq-Afg/Snowden-Assange/social media generated dysfunction/metoo/blm etc etc getting seen as some kind of attack on American identity, the kind of stuff that pushes people right.
But either way Govt is not magic. It has to react to a very complex uncontrollable ever changing reality. There will be oscillations between periods of calm and chaos.
Good news is we are already hitting upper limits of how many people we can reach via apps/smartphone/internet.
Limits that in the past 2 decades (of scaling) the people who built these Platforms didn't have to think about. Now they do. And they are coming under serious pressure because they have built out more Supply than there is Demand.
For example, we got the explosive growth of Netflix. Everyone sees that and piles into streaming. When growth slows in one country they immediately move into another and they keep growing until they run out of countries to expand into. So Netflix has been in India (a country advertised as having zillions of consumers) for nearly 10 years now but they haven't found more than 25 million paying subscribers. Learning takes time. And everyone is learning there are limits to growth based purely on the online model.
While I agree with your overarching point re:saturation,
> haven't found more than 25 million subscribers
There is a metric ton of demand for steaming services in India.. just that amazon prime and hotstar.com took most of the market. Most of this is due to pricing:
Prime: 999 INR/year
Netflix: 650 INR/month
Recently they've tried segmenting.. by packaging a single-device 720p-only plan along with the telecom plans, and I'd bet that's the majority of their customer base today since people get it for free. They also have a deal with samsung and other companies that make mid-range phones which most people in india own to have netflix pre-installed. So this + the telecom plans is the way they count them as users.
To be fair, amazon packages theirs with the 1-day delivery service on amazon.in, so it's a bit of an unfair advantage there. But even if you compare with hotstar, they charge 1499/year, which is about 1/6th of netflix's price.
Again to be fair, live cricket streaming is _huge_ here, and people get hotstar for that anyways, so a bit of an unfair advantage again.
Even twitch managed to make price cuts here. I bet netflix can as well. I doubt regional content production is actually a problem for somebody like netflix.
Totally pointless article that seems to imply Germany should act more like the US on energy, immigration and industry. It can not, because it is not the US. And thank god for that.
There is no magic obvious path for countries like Germany, Japan, South Korea or Taiwan as the influence of US, over everything they did in the last 70 years recedes. It will take time to work out. In the meantime thousands of articles will be written about how they don't know what they are doing and that what they should do is obvious. All worth throwing in a dustbin.
Bernie is on the march. Join him. People will get sick of Trump much faster this time around. We just need a decent alternative to rise up and that will happen only through organizing and action - https://bobertea.sg/news/bernie-sanders-heads-to-heartland-t...
Since then the avg ad price, they have reported has risen for 12 quarters in a row, past 6 quarters its jumped 15-30%. The MO is to prey on small businesses and people who want attention, world wide, who don't know anything about advertising/marketing. Everything they know comes from what Google and Meta tell them.
Indian IT firms made about $100-120 Billion in revenue last year. That's just handling Corporate Americas IT/BPM ops. Add the rest of the worlds IT stuff and it doubles. Why will this happen if it benefits no one? This story is 30 years old now. And its not the first time the Visa system is being gamed.
If you assume Corporate America saves 40-50% in salaries (usually the conservative diff in avg sal level of Indian vs American Engineer) through this route, then someone has to pay that diff to make this stop. Otherwise the incentives have not changed and there is no "easy fix".
Cause if you start talking about birth certificates on social media in America you can become President. Its similar to why do spammer spam? Cuz tech has brought cost to spam down to 0. Any income is profit.
This is why experiments like ONDC[1] (being pushed by the Indian Govt) are interesting. They want an alternative path between producer and consumer with out a middleman (Platform). Similar to how email works based on open protocols. Or UPI which has reduced dependence on Mastercard/Visa.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_economy [1] https://ondc.org/learn-about-ondc/