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Let's keep perspective here: Instagram is a popular photo-filtering gadget. If it disappeared in a day, the human race would not be pushed backwards at all.



Following that logic, you would conclude that if Apple disappeared in 1997, we would be exactly at same place of progress?


If a company disappeared, the people who worked there would be equally productive elsewhere.




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