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For me I think we should think about stopping or reversing some aspects of this toxic work environment transformation, it's about proper regulation against mono
by winternett 4y ago
For me I think we should think about stopping or reversing some aspects of this toxic work environment transformation, it's about proper regulation against monopolies.
We have to admit that the current climate of "struggle until you go viral for 5 seconds" is going to devastate the world and only serve to enrich the already wealthy people that own and run tech platforms.
Trust fund babies are able to thrive and become leaders in this type of model because wealth hoarders can easily buy themselves past the threshold of visibility and profit... Right now, the people we are seeing most are people that spend a lot of money on ads and marketing to boost their visibility.. Organic visibility is a dead wish, perpetuated by social and other platforms to keep people struggling towards success without hope.
In order to start a business or other venture from scratch, the organization needs to have lots of capital for marketing alone over product development and overhead costs, that makes upward mobility for anyone middle class or below damn near impossible.
This is a plague on the entire world right now, as disadvantaged people resort to crime or other negative schemes to fund their goals in legitimate business. The entry bar is set abnormally high, and talent no longer is a measure of success, it simply becomes who had money to rise.
This type of controlled opportunity environment breeds negative predatory behaviors all around, wealth hoarding, mediocrity, more monopolies, and inherent unfairness that will eventually keep everyone unemployed and underemployed while creating even more powerful meritocracies and lobbies that impact everything form real estate to politics.
This is a very serious issue, and a deep threat towards world economic stability in my opinion.
- jwestbury 4y ago> The entry bar is set abnormally high, and talent no longer is a measure of success, it simply becomes who had money to rise. When was this NOT the case, though? The monetarily successful have always been overwhelmingly from monetarily successful backgrounds.
- tarboreus 4y agoI don't know, my immigrant grantparents did legit do very well in the US, like much of their cohort.
- winternett 4y agoIt's always been an issue, but now the doors between low/middle and the wealthy class are closing even tighter as wealth and opportunity become more scarce... The methods to use in finding success are becoming convoluted as well by certain members of the wealthy class in order to discriminate in ways against other wealthy people too... Rather crazy how things at the top work.