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>Those employees said Wirecutter’s top editors argued that the site’s business would not scale directly, because a minority of articles, many of them for big-ti
by M2Ys4U 3y ago
>Those employees said Wirecutter’s top editors argued that the site’s business would not scale directly, because a minority of articles, many of them for big-ticket items such as appliances, generated the bulk of the company’s revenues. But the mandate remained: Wirecutter would need to double its staff and double its output.
And this right here encapsulates many of the problems we have today.
"We must be bigger! We need to do more! SCALE UP!"
- Uehreka 3y agoI’ve heard some people say that this is intrinsic to and required by capitalism. I sure hope not, since that would be a pretty damning indictment of capitalism, which I otherwise like for a lot of reasons.
- M2Ys4U 3y agoIt's not required by capitalism, but capitalism does incentivise this type of behaviour.
- memefrog 3y agoI don't think that's really so meaningful. If not for 'capitalism' (which is a pretty vague term anyway) we wouldn't have these websites. There would be one version of most if not all of these products. That's what you'd get, and nothing else.