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arjietoday at 4:47 PM0 repliesview on HN

This doesn’t strike me as a problem. There are sufficient entrepreneurs that market need common to a total 20% of the population will be met. In the USA that 70 million is a sufficiently large number. After all, that’s $700 million of MRR at $10/month.

The things limiting provision of services are physical limits like the audience being widely dispersed or just characteristics like not all sharing the same needs and therefore not actually being addressable.

You obviously are well aware that addressability does not track with income category automatically but it does for many businesses. E.g. payday loans, rent to own, check cashing, dollar stores.

Since a large section of this group is in use of government credits, at the least businesses will evolve to meet the use of those. EBT grocers, Medicaid-focused care, etc.

The majority of the effort will be spent where the greatest economic opportunity is, but entrepreneurs will match their ability to address the market to their audience. It’s not possible for a dollar store to sell GPUs to Baseten. They don’t have the capability to do something useful there.