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It's the age-old battle between investors and entrepreneurs wanting to make crazy money and creative people just trying to make enough to live somewhat comforta
by suction 4y ago
It's the age-old battle between investors and entrepreneurs wanting to make crazy money and creative people just trying to make enough to live somewhat comfortably.
It's also happened in the brick and mortar world, when American ideas took over Europe.
For this to change, the American age would have to end, but I'm not sure if whatever comes next will be an improvement.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> It's the age-old battle between investors and entrepreneurs wanting to make crazy money and creative people ... ... wanting to wake up every hour, 24 hours a day, to sift through pictures of shirtless men to find some beautiful furniture to put up on the frontpage?
- guerrilla 4y agoYeah, that was valuable, and obviously could be distributed among more people.
- organsnyder 4y agoThat's the piece I don't understand. I get that they're a scrappy startup, but surely they could have spread the work among more people so that no one had to work 24/7?
- spookthesunset 4y agoI kinda took that more as a slight embellishment than a hard truth. Surely there was at least a few people on rotation doing that. Having that done by a single person 24/7 would be almost literally impossible. It still sucks for the person in rotation, especially whoever was doing it at night. But in startup land, where you have limited resources, somehow the ticket to make that somewhat automated by queuing up a bunch of these things at once wasn’t high enough of a priority. Honestly the best way to have gotten that fixed was to put the developers into rotation. I bet somebody would have cooked something up after the first shift!
- suction 4y agoThe shirtless men were optional. But curating a selection of photos out of a bigger amount of photos is creative work, I'd say.