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Having been in this industry for a long time now, I see a disappointing trend in tech, and US society in general: viewing everything at zero sum. I’m probably
by lokar 2y ago
Having been in this industry for a long time now, I see a disappointing trend in tech, and US society in general: viewing everything at zero sum.
I’m probably naive, but I remember in the past tech focusing on innovation that would generate enough gains for everyone to get a share (or at least the gain to the tech company did not come at the expense of someone else)
Now, more and more I see business plans that are zero sum. Using tech to take from someone else, not growing the pie.
This matches a general trend in public life is the US to view everything as a zero sum contest
- _DeadFred_ 2y agoThere was a time when US tech people would use this idea as a moral parable. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 But now we have current tech businesses basing their future growth strategies as much on better dark patterns as on actual value creation. Imagine a society using their best minds to figure out 'better' dark patterns, and counting the outcome from those patterns as GDP growth. That society is royally f'd on every level.