"relays will be cost centers"
that was the most fiat minded shit i heard from the nostriga. 😂
untrue, maybe you should get some, incase this thing takes off.. 🌊
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I don't understand the statement. Cost centers, what does it mean?
its just fiat business speak, its meaningless in v4v
Disagree. Cost center definitely applies in v4v, but is more often just considered some general expense on the input side. In any endeavor with costs, as it grows, its important to track where costs are coming from. For example, my IT budget is a cost center of my general life expenses, and can be broken down further into such specific cost categories as Cloud Services (VPS, Amazon, Google, etc), Communications (Internet Provider, Phone Service) Hardware (Dev Laptop, MFA tokens, Cellphone)
In business, a cost center is typically an accounting term where costs get charged. Working in IT, we're usually frowned upon by the legions of MBAs as just being cost centers and not revenue generators or protectors.
It's usually used as a scapegoat to downsize people, too.
Ah yes.. similar thinking is what leads to big bonuses on the front end for sales as the revenue generator, and crapping on producers actually performing fulfillment
Ok, now I understand, thanks. My opinion about this topic is that in the future everyone will be able to make clients with pretty little investment (almost zero). If clients become increasingly interoperable over time and everyone can create them, this means everyone has individually the benefits of interoperability BUT that doesn't mean those clients won't come without tradeoffs (see, I'm one of those that think that everything comes with tradeoffs. Also, the more useful or convenient, the more tradeoffs it has)
If everyone has to deal individually (or even in a Dunbar number fashion) with those tradeoffs, that means everyone will have to soften them paying MONEY (summing it up: the fact that everyone can make highly interoperable clients almost for free means they will have a clear DEMAND for the things that make clients smoother). Another thing is that individuals won't be really able to deflect the cost of making clients smooth by passing that responsibility to big corporations because that will be economically inviable in a free market
Everything I said makes me conclude that there will never be free lunch again because clients will be an eternal source of demand for everything Nostr related (Relays, dev work, etc) and the starting point for a sustained division of labor.
So, saying that relays are cost centers is highly gauche
100%, I appreciate you articulating this. I can't predict the future, but I know the words "cost center" and I equate them with fiat world. In v4v, there is no 'cost center'. There is only value.
