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The last few years are starting to feel like genuine "late stage capitalism", with corporations realising they can just lie, manipulate, and outright work again
by Llamamoe 3y ago
The last few years are starting to feel like genuine "late stage capitalism", with corporations realising they can just lie, manipulate, and outright work against their customers with impunity if squeezes one more cent on the dollar.
Once you're big enough, without a coordinated media campaign the lashback and outrage rarely reach the critical mass it takes to make harmful decisions unprofitable.
- lostlogin 3y ago> outright work against their customers with impunity if squeezes one more cent on the dollar. If you apply this logic to Reddit, have they added value, or lost it? It’s hard to see how this fiasco has been of benefit to them.