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This always happens with promising technologies or methodologies once big companies get their hands on them. OOP was a great idea until it turned into a strict
by maxxxxx 8y ago
This always happens with promising technologies or methodologies once big companies get their hands on them. OOP was a great idea until it turned into a strict religion, Agile was good until it turned into a micromanagement system, the internet liberated people until it turned into a surveillance machine, collaboration is good so we got a workplace with open offices that's so distracting that it's hard to get work done. Watch the same happen with FP or things like diversity.
Companies are basically dictatorships that want to control their employees ("resources") and everything else so it's pretty natural that they will distort every new movement into a tool to extend that control.
- spaceribs 8y agoI think it's easy to look at the short-term and miss the larger picture. The printing press being the only other well documented time of this explosion of knowledge/technology allows us to see that no matter how power expands and then coalesces, it takes the good ideas, fragments away, and then repeats the process as a sect of the greater power.