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Convincing people to buy your rotten meat is value creation! Convincing people to buy a bridge is value creation! Convincing people to buy your Teflon pan tha

Convincing people to buy your rotten meat is value creation! Convincing people to buy a bridge is value creation! Convincing people to buy your Teflon pan that will seep into the environment for centuries is value creation! Because after all, nothing else matters. Value creation. Value. Creation. Consequences ? Thoughtfulness ? That's for the dumbasses not creating _value_

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
I searched some greed quotes and here's one I'd like to share "As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering"
- hk__2 1y ago
  "Can you make a sentence look more intelligent if you surround it with quotes?"
  - Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
    I didn't want it to sound intelligent but I mean I was mentioning a quote so we do need to place a quote inside quotes afterall lol. I was just sharing something that I felt relevant to the discussion in the sense that greed is one of the most major causes of suffering, and it is our greed that we are ready to write linkedin mediocrity slop.
    - hk__2 1y ago
      This was more an humorous side comment than a critic, I’m sorry if it looked like this.
simianwords 1y ago
Not sure what you mean. You think people are inherently stupid and end up buying things they will regret. It’s not always like that and you are removing agency from the person purchasing the product.
- alansammarone 1y ago
  No so much "stupid", just full of biases and somewhat lazy. This is a well-researched and documented fact. Knowingly abusing these biases to get them to buy or use something that they either don't need - or, worse, buying a low quality/low effort product when better alternatives exist - that's extremely detrimental. That's how we end up with the enshittification of everything.
  - simianwords 1y ago
    Yes there are biases sometimes and it can get exploited and this is an exception that proves the rule. But the rule is that people know what they want to buy and know what they are getting into. You are trying to get in between by suggesting you know more than the buyer and seller.
    - amanaplanacanal 1y ago
      They mostly don't know what they are getting into though. You can't trust advertising, obviously. You can't trust reviews. You have no way to tell if there is actually a better product than the one you are seeing the ad for. You better hope there is a good return policy.
      - simianwords 1y ago
        You can't trust advertising completely nor can you trust reviews completely but they are signals. Treating things as binary will not get you anywhere. Signals exist and are useful if not 100% accurate.
        alansammarone 1y ago
        This is... an understatement. I would agree advertising is a useful signal, but I would say that not only can you not trust advertising, you should put negative weight on advertising - i.e. whenever you see an ad, that means the company is putting some amount of money into trying to convince you by means other than an honest comparison/spec table, and therefore is likely to have an inferior product. So personally, I generally avoid any companies/people whose presentations contains no information about the objective characteristics of their work.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

I searched some greed quotes and here's one I'd like to share "As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering"

hk__2 1y ago
"Can you make a sentence look more intelligent if you surround it with quotes?"
- Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
  I didn't want it to sound intelligent but I mean I was mentioning a quote so we do need to place a quote inside quotes afterall lol. I was just sharing something that I felt relevant to the discussion in the sense that greed is one of the most major causes of suffering, and it is our greed that we are ready to write linkedin mediocrity slop.
  - hk__2 1y ago
    This was more an humorous side comment than a critic, I’m sorry if it looked like this.

simianwords 1y ago

Not sure what you mean. You think people are inherently stupid and end up buying things they will regret. It’s not always like that and you are removing agency from the person purchasing the product.

alansammarone 1y ago
No so much "stupid", just full of biases and somewhat lazy. This is a well-researched and documented fact. Knowingly abusing these biases to get them to buy or use something that they either don't need - or, worse, buying a low quality/low effort product when better alternatives exist - that's extremely detrimental. That's how we end up with the enshittification of everything.
- simianwords 1y ago
  Yes there are biases sometimes and it can get exploited and this is an exception that proves the rule. But the rule is that people know what they want to buy and know what they are getting into. You are trying to get in between by suggesting you know more than the buyer and seller.
  - amanaplanacanal 1y ago
    They mostly don't know what they are getting into though. You can't trust advertising, obviously. You can't trust reviews. You have no way to tell if there is actually a better product than the one you are seeing the ad for. You better hope there is a good return policy.
    - simianwords 1y ago
      You can't trust advertising completely nor can you trust reviews completely but they are signals. Treating things as binary will not get you anywhere. Signals exist and are useful if not 100% accurate.
      - alansammarone 1y ago
        This is... an understatement. I would agree advertising is a useful signal, but I would say that not only can you not trust advertising, you should put negative weight on advertising - i.e. whenever you see an ad, that means the company is putting some amount of money into trying to convince you by means other than an honest comparison/spec table, and therefore is likely to have an inferior product. So personally, I generally avoid any companies/people whose presentations contains no information about the objective characteristics of their work.