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We get what we deserve. It's obvious in retrospect that one of the main ways tech companies make money is scale, without the costs that physical based companie
by ghusto 4y ago
We get what we deserve.
It's obvious in retrospect that one of the main ways tech companies make money is scale, without the costs that physical based companies bear with scale.
For example, you go to a shop, and they have employees they have to pay. When the shop scales, so does the number of employees. Tech companies aren't like that though. You write software, then scale it to as many users as possible (billions, in some cases), but their cheat-code, is that they don't provide support of any meaningful kind.
They can get away with it because they're not bound by physical interaction, and nobody's holding them accountable. Law is always understandably slow to catch up, but hopefully we'll get some reasonable regulation around tech soon.
- pindab0ter 4y agoCould you elaborate on "We get what we deserve"? I don't see how we (users of Instagram or social media as a whole, I guess) deserve this.
- berniedurfee 4y agoMaybe “You get what you pay for” is more appropriate.
- hatter 4y agoYou invested (your time, energy, reputation) into a system which you either knew or could have quickly established, places no value in you as a person and has zero interest in fixing any problems that may affect you. I'm sure many users started using it for nothing of any real importance at first, so didn't let that really worry them. But over time, they invested much more while still in the back of their mind knowing that while the odds are small of anything happening, that if it did, your data and relationships could be taken from you, and possibly even given to others, for reasons you may never even know, or reasons you may know to be false but unable to do anything about the error.