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That's a side effect of too much centralization. Grocery stores handle billions of customers daily and have no problem processing even 10% of them complaining about something, because there's lots of stores and each handles complaints themselves. Customer support scales linearly with the scale of the sector.

You could say it's one of the negative side effects of globalization - instead of small market entities serving their local populations, you have large market entities that try to handle everyone themselves.



Yes exactly. A good example of this in a centralised system however, is Indian Railways.

They have a billion customers and still have a simple phone number, a mobile app and physical counters for customer service.




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