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First, the website should be able to load without JavaScript. It's really just text. Well, probably more trackers than text, even. > This started before AI. It
by palata 1y ago
First, the website should be able to load without JavaScript. It's really just text. Well, probably more trackers than text, even.
> This started before AI. It started when the internet created so much real value that we could afford massive inefficiency elsewhere.
That's pretty uninformed. The economic growth is purely related to abundant fossil fuels. Internet is just the advertising platform. Google and Meta print money because they sell ads (by abusing everybody, see enshittification).
> I'd estimate 60% are doing jobs that don't need to exist.
I genuinely wonder how many friends one has, when one pulls estimations like this out of their hat and shares them. Then goes on criticising executives who presumably do the same.
> There's a woman who creates internal training materials that no one reads. She spends months crafting beautiful PowerPoints for compliance trainings that people click through as fast as possible.
The point of making internal training materials is that employees should be trained. The fact that the employees actively fight against the training doesn't mean that the idea is worthless. Many people refuse to learn about phishing "because they are not stupid", and get phished.
> There's a team of six people who generate reports. The reports go to managers who generate summary reports. Those go to executives who make decisions based on gut feel anyway.
Why would that mean that the reports are useless? The problem may be those executives who don't read them.
- anovikov 1y agoThat's certainly not the case. Fossil fuel consumption in the US has been flat for 50+ years, and falling on per capita basis, which didn't stop the economy from growing. It's even more pronounced for the world as a whole. From 1974 till today, output per joule of fossil fuels consumed increased 1.9x worldwide and 3.2x in USA.
- palata 1y agoCheck the global fossil consumption.
- anovikov 1y agoIt's even more pronounced on a global level. Per capital fossil fuel consumption increased only 14% since 1973 and then, 2/3 of worldwide population regularly starved, now only around 8% do.
- palata 1y agoAnd the European economy has been slowing down since 2007, which is... related to fossil fuels (peak conventional oil).
- bhaktatejas922 1y agomost of the mechanisms you describe here are what is meant by "naturally arising"