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Do this and someone with a different set of tastes for the "straight and narrow" will attack you for commodifying things, or beating up on the less privileged b
by msabalau 12y ago
Do this and someone with a different set of tastes for the "straight and narrow" will attack you for commodifying things, or beating up on the less privileged by charging for stuff that ought to be free, or for having lousy products because you don't know about your users.
- lsc 12y agoIf by 'attack' you mean 'say mean things' - then sure. I mean, you're absolutely right about how business people seem to really really hate people who make commodities, even though it's in the buyer's interest to buy things that are sold as commodities (e.g. goods and/or services where switching vendors is easy) It's a lot like how business people get all hostile when you talk about competing on price. "It's not about the money!" they shout, like overdressed, aging hippies. But it's a transparent lie, and I think largely harmless. but... yeah, as far as I can tell, the hostility starts and ends at saying mean things (and, you know, not giving you money, but I don't really live in the universe where investors give you money, so likely that is observer bias.) I think it's just the general kind of hostility you get from co-workers, in most industries when you make them look bad by working harder than they do.