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>Everything seems to now be an exercise in somehow optimizing profits It has always been, but now the idea is to maximize it as fast as possible and “tomorrow
by neuralRiot 2y ago
>Everything seems to now be an exercise in somehow optimizing profits
It has always been, but now the idea is to maximize it as fast as possible and “tomorrow is not my problem”, same as school grades discussed in another post, the goal is to pass the metrics, the final result doesn’t really matter.
- leobg 2y agoYou may be right. And it’s odd. Everyone is talking about AI and the future and all of that. But really, we live as if there is no tomorrow. Nobody would start a construction project anymore that would pay off a generation later. Compare that to medieval building projects. I imagine we lack a stable foundation to stand on. If you have no idea what the world will look like 50 years from now (and what people will value them), it’s useless to make any long term investments. Your customers are the people of today, along with their ideas about the future - but not the people of the future themselves. Same problem in education. We have no idea what kids will need 20 years from now. So we just let them do what they like. Not because we cared more than the teachers of the past. But because they had a plan and a mission and a reason why to pull kids through training that sometimes was tough for them, whereas we don’t.