Dropbox is working on its own password manager Passwords – Computer – News

The discussion is a bit off-topic, but my point was that Dropbox can ‘improperly’ influence competition due to other income here. Personally, I keep myself away from VS cloud providers as much as possible. Free does not exist. You only pay in a different way (but that’s another discussion, and dropbox also has paid accounts).

You don’t guarantee the lowest costs as much competition as possible. If there is too much competition, the employer can go bankrupt or pay lower wages. Which means that a group of consumers is wasted. Plenty of examples in practice (banks, healthcare, agriculture, free movement of workers within the EU).

Also, an excess of competition will skim the profit to such an extent that there is no budget for innovation. Whether the quality delivered drops, because of the cutthroat competition, all producers deliver equally poor quality. So the number of competing companies does matter. The market divided by the number of providers must be able to deliver a fair sandwich for an entrepreneur (where more services / products for an entrepreneur influence the size of the potential market).

The lowest costs for one, potentially means too little income for the other. In that respect, capitalism is a killer unjust. Although in all other systems, which are not necessarily better, the role of greed will always be present. This is the case with the consumer who wants to be ready for ‘less-than-the-cost’ and the producer ‘who wants to have the maximum’. It only really goes wrong if producers push away other producers because they can offset costs internally in a different way. Amazon is a good example.

The average consumer cannot or will not delve into injustice or – on topic – poorer security. Usually because apparently ‘free’ (or unlikely little) is the norm. I recognize that a multitude of reasons may underlie this, including laziness, greed, stupidity, unwillingness, lack of time.

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