I worked in Ecommerce with a company that built sophisticated subscription solutions well before Shopify had a real offering. We took significant VC money, then watched Shopify build out their own solution to service the now proven market. I'd expect them or Stripe to do the same thing here; it's way more common than buying the first mover or hiring them to build it, plus YC has no interest in this sort of business model.

burning garbage doesn't create any waste? You could just put it in your organics/composting...

it's hard to reconcile a menu like this with statements like "Gen-z will never be able to afford a house"

Care to elaborate? I don’t see any connection between the two.

Shipping something that weighs only a few pounds and can be shipped along with tens of thousands of shipping containers (i.e., is not needed at the destination in a day or two) costs almost no CO2 emissions.

It costs as much as shipping just one container. Just because you can distribute the emissions over more people doesn’t make it less bad for the environment. Not ordering something from overseas is the only solution.

you're only focusing on the immediate, literal replacement cost though; what if (and there are as credible papers as this one, stating so) using a metal spatula on my teflon pan causes it to get into my food and that's what will kill me? Or various metals are an even bigger health risk?

>> should be pretty obvious even before this study that plastic, heat, and ingesting the result do not go together.

I don't think this is true.

If you are using teflon pans, then metal spatulas are probably worse for you. But you should not be using teflon pans on the first place!

Also wood spatulas exist as a very good replacement for plastic spatulas for teflon pans anyway.

Yep, aside from the legacy desktop environment & gaming I don't really have any ties to MS anymore, and I was a pure MS developer for 20+ years. Now with .NET superior on non-windows platforms and the nonsense their hostile consumer & enterprise side keeps pulling why would I stay in the ecosystem? I agree that Ballmer was unfairly used as a punching bag, but MS today (both the good and bad) is all Nadella.

Combined with the massive popularity of private equity in so many business areas now we're unlikely to see 100-year companies again.

I would describe Shopify, even with it's huge ecosystem, as laser-focused in this area, when compared to Salesforce. Thinking of using SF for your enterprise ecommerce solution? Why not go with the agile, startup competition, SAP? </s>

maybe a counter-example? Zoho doesn't have one product that does everything but does seem to have A product for everything. None of them are fantastic, but many are decent or good enough, and they are cheap. I've been pleasantly surprised with the experience, as I thought it would be similar to the GoDaddy or AWS perpetual dark-pattern upsell.

I've worked in Ecommerce, but SF was not a concern, especially compared to how big a deal Shopify was for us. Now In EdTech we need to interface with SF for the bigger clients and it is a wild, painful ride. They have their own tooling/language/architecture for EVERYTHING. Oh, and good luck doing SF development locally. To (mis)quote Homer Simpson, there's the right way, the wrong way and the Salesforce way - which is the wrong way but way slower and more complex.