I'm not sure the word "monopoly" means what this person thinks it means. Craigslist doesn't have a monopoly; in fact, the market for the service Craigslist provides is dominated by other providers. Craiglist is simply the best, most powerful provider.
As a result, if Craigslist was really doing everyone a disservice by not implementing this guy's feature wish list, they'd lose market share to a competitor that actually implemented them. The post tacitly concedes that point by cheering on YC's alleged effort to fund a Craigslist competitor, thus contradicting its own thesis.
The problem with these feature wishlists for Craigslist is that the site works. This particular wishlist is particularly funny, because it consists largely of things that eBay provides --- reputation, semantic search --- without acknowledging that Craigslist currently works better than eBay.
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I'm not sure the word "monopoly" means what this person thinks it means. Craigslist doesn't have a monopoly; in fact, the market for the service Craigslist provides is dominated by other providers. Craiglist is simply the best, most powerful provider.
As a result, if Craigslist was really doing everyone a disservice by not implementing this guy's feature wish list, they'd lose market share to a competitor that actually implemented them. The post tacitly concedes that point by cheering on YC's alleged effort to fund a Craigslist competitor, thus contradicting its own thesis.
The problem with these feature wishlists for Craigslist is that the site works. This particular wishlist is particularly funny, because it consists largely of things that eBay provides --- reputation, semantic search --- without acknowledging that Craigslist currently works better than eBay.