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>"Aren't we supposed to be, like, building stuff that users want? Rather than just trying to get promoted and game the system?" That's the company's job, not y
by zo1 11y ago
>"Aren't we supposed to be, like, building stuff that users want? Rather than just trying to get promoted and game the system?"
That's the company's job, not yours.
In fact, you are actually already doing it if you twist definitions a bit. The "user" is the company you work for, and you are the product. And you "gaming" the corporate-ladder system is you simply marketing the product (yourself) to your user/client so that they pay you more for it.
The beauty of it is that the emergent behavior of those combined two agents yields a net positive for society. Do not be fooled into thinking that only "noble" academia is the way to advance humankind.
- jqm 11y agoNo. Absolutely no. A net positive is not being realized for humanity when you consider all the factors in this type of behavior. What this is a wasteful process of leaching excessive production into the bank accounts of people pretending to be productively engaged. I have to agree with OP. Far too many big companies are busy trying to figure out how to game the system and cheat the consumers and have become filled with ladder climbers who have long since lost sight of the original mandate assigned to them by the system. This probably won't last very long historically speaking and it might not end well either. It's unbalanced, unjust, corrupt and just plain wrong. Incidentally, the companies job is OP's job. Companies don't exist without people.