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Remember the startup mantra I've heard pg and others state: make stuff people want. This is true locally, but globally and taken to the extreme it's a nightmar
by DanielBMarkham 9y ago
Remember the startup mantra I've heard pg and others state: make stuff people want.
This is true locally, but globally and taken to the extreme it's a nightmare. People don't know what they want, and if you were to give them everything they wanted, you would destroy them. Take a look at anybody who's suddenly come into a lot of fame and fortune. The results are usually appalling.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoGive children what they want - bright lights and shiny things, sugar & fat in equal measure, autonomy without responsibility, you'll end up with unhealthy sociopathic children. We're all children and eschew what is good for us, just as adults we're cognisant of that failing. Companies use our gluttony and greed to develop a desire in us, then fulfill that desire. The most financially profitable companies don't just give us what we want, they tell us first what we want, then sell it us. Viz: You want to be lusted after by women, seen as powerful, make men jealous; our watch will do that for you; buying our watch will give you all you want. Yes, agreed, globally is pathological, but it achieves the ends of Capitalism, making the rich richer off the backs of the poor man's labour.
- tcmb 9y agoThe adaptations to a world of scarcity that made us successful as a species make us vulnerable in this world of abundance that we have created for ourselves. We developed our own environment into a state in which we are not optimally adapted to it anymore.