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My catchphrase for a while has been "business ruins everything it touches." And before someone swoops in to try and convince me otherwise, save your breath. I'm
by quickslowdown 2y ago
My catchphrase for a while has been "business ruins everything it touches." And before someone swoops in to try and convince me otherwise, save your breath. I'm not interested in hearing the positives of business, I will ignore outright anything pointing to "you wouldn't have THIS without business!"-type replies, and I don't want to reduce this thought further.
From my perspective, business ruins everything it touches, whether right away or slowly over time through enshittification.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoI get your point, though to me, there's way too many babies per cubic meter of that bathwater of yours. My own general explanation of why everything sucks is more like this: we don't know how to stop. The market can't stop itself from over-optimizing, over-exploiting. The evolution of any product, service, company or technology, can be to a first approximation plotted as a bell curve: total value provided to society ^ | .... | .. .. | ... ... | .... .... | ..... ..... ------------------------------------> time (Total value includes not just direct benefit to customers/users, but also how it enables others to build new products/science/businesses/etc. on it.) The market always goes all the way to the right. What it should do, what we need it to do, is to stop at the peak of the bell curve. Alas, there is no mechanism that would get people to say, "yeah, this is the best it could be, let's go do something else"; the market demands they move to the right, all the way to diminishing returns.
- UncleSlacky 2y agoI'd replace "business" with "capitalism".