@ilpianista One more point about scale: Google, and Facebook, and governments, and mafia organisations, are /huge/.
Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014, for $19 billion /in cash/.
The typical U.S. household cannot raise $400 on short term. Facebook a California company, has the purchasing power of 40 million typical households -- the population of the entire state.
These are Large Entities. Very Large Entities.
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