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In every economy, companies optimize for survival by "seeming" the best. The only part that changes is the audience to which it seems.
by bcgraham 8y ago
In every economy, companies optimize for survival by "seeming" the best. The only part that changes is the audience to which it seems.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThis is a reason to keep iterating on and fixing "economies" until we can get as close match as possible between "seeming" the best and actually being the best.
- bcgraham 8y agoThe "best" by which metric and whose evaluation? This is another way of asking, "Who are we going to forbid from determining for themselves these answers?"
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIn this case, by universal metric of honesty. The evaluated party is the one both creating their product and telling about it; it would be nice if that party was incentivized to create a) quality products, that b) work as advertised.