"A difference in degree becomes a difference in kind" seems to escape too many people when it comes to negative social impact, especially those making money in the scaling business.

Most of YC and VC (and the internet) is built on the math of network effects, but you are correct, so many people here don't think scale differentiates things. It might not always be a distinction with a difference, but in some cases, it clearly is. That's why we have the whole darn concept of network effects lol.