> Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy. Everyone is getting richer, as for greedier.. > Everyone see

> Rich, powerful, greedy people and corporations just get richer, more powerful, and more greedy. Everyone is getting richer, as for greedier.. > Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society. The socially responsible company movement is now a thing. Most companies now care about the environment and their employees to a point that was unheard of decades ago, even if only because of PR. > Or, people who are in it for society tend to lose or to get screwed until they give up. And yet there’s a market for doing good things. The number of NGOs is in all time highs. > Artists really don't get enough of a reward for all the benefit they provide. What? Artists have never had it easier. From spotify to patreon, or even youtube. Distributing and monetizing has never been easier. > Big banks and big governments really do nonspecifically just suck a lot. Suckness is non-surprisingly tied to government. The closest a market is to government the more it sucks. > The gap between the haves and have-nots keeps widening. The statistics say otherwise > You can't hope to run an Internet service unless you pay out a fraction to one of the Big Cloud Providers, just like you couldn't run software without paying IBM and then Microsoft, back in those days. On premise is still a thing. > delivering less per dollar, gigahertz, gigabyte, or watt. Except compute has never been more efficient. > We even pay 30% margins to App Stores mainly so they can not let us download apps that are "too dangerous." We pay them for curating and maintaining a system that’s working for millions of people. > IT security has become literally impossible: if you install all the patches, you get SolarWinds-style supply chain malware delivered to you automatically. If you don't install the patches, well, that's worse. Either way, enjoy your ransomware. When wasn’t it that way? Were you around the days of the “ping of death”? > Everything about modern business is designed to funnel money, faster and faster, to a few people who have demonstrated they can be productive. This totally works, up to a point. Citation needed > But we've now reached the extreme corner cases of capitalism. Winning money is surely a motivator, but that motivation goes down the more you have. Eventually it simply stops mattering at all. Call me crazy, but once I’ve covered my expenses and built a safety net, I’d rather slow down, enjoy my life, spend time with my family… That you see a negative there somehow is baffling to me.