over charging customers and under paying employees
That's the crux of the issue.
Who's going to buy it for a high price, if there is no demand for office space, because workers are all remote?
The market didn't need regulations to maintain its freeness back then because the vast majority of transactions were made with small businesses. The limited technological capabilities in transport and communication also decreased the need for government regulation by decreasing the ability of the largest concentrations of capital to succeed at implementing global anti-competitive strategies.
To achieve the same degree of market freedom today, in the era of omni-national mega-corporations wielding monopoly influence, requires utilizing levers of power outside of the market those mega-corps dominate. The intervention of democratic governments to enforce anti-monopoly laws and prohibit other kinds of anti-competitive behavior is a necessary component of any plan to transform today's marketplace into one that looks more similar to the market of Adam Smith's day.
It is though - this is what capitalism invariably becomes. Musky Twitter is a symptom of late stage capitalism. This is why so many people say capitalism is bad and doesn't work as advertised.
The golden age of classical liberalism, when capitalism actually worked, the 1700-1800's, more closely resembles what we would today call market socialism.
Once the agglomerations of capital became large enough to impose irresistible anti-competitive force, the days of capitalism's beneficial functionality ended. They say "the freer the market the freer the people", but an unregulated market isn't free - it invariably trends toward monopoly and irrationally assigned concentrations of wealth and power, eg Musk, Bezos, DuPont, Sackler, etc...
Capitalism supports, rather than resists, the anti-competitive influence of capital. A truly free market requires the intervention of powers other than capital - eg, democratic governance imposing something akin to Market Socialism against the wishes of those anti-competitive agglomerations of capital.
fund it exclusively out of his own pocket
That's how newspapers got started - they were propaganda organs of the rich and existed exclusively to manipulate public opinion. Things really haven't changed that much, but somewhere along the way people were tricked into paying for them.
I think its more likely that YouTube will shut down and be replaced by nothing. Its existence has never made sense as anything but an act of charity from an organization with tech resources to burn.
Yeah, creating a venue for sex work is the only plausible use case.
surely producing a lower volume of lower quality products will improve the bottom line, right?
some of their higher end mice let you call specific functions of popular productivity software, like using the scroll wheel to change the brush size in Photoshop for example
Not too long ago, a lot of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software ran on MS SQL Server. Businesses made significant investments in software and training, and some of them don't have the technical, financial, or logistical resources to adapt - momentum keeps them using Windows Server.
For example, small businesses that are physically located in rural areas can't use cloud based services because rural internet is too slow and unreliable. Its not quite the case that there's no amount of money you can pay for a good internet connection in rural America, but last time I looked into it, Verizon wanted to charge me $20,000 per mile to run a fiber optic cable from the nearest town to my client's farm.
gestures broadly at the current state of KSP2
To quote every Oblivion NPC: "I don't know you, and I don't care to know you."