Comment by palata
6 days ago
> I'm suggesting you consider it from an objective perspective.
What is objective? That profitability is good? We're destroying our environment to the point where many of us will die from it for the sake of profitability. We're over-using limited natural resources for the sake of profitability. In my book that's not desirable at all.
Companies are profit-maximising machines. The path to more profitability tends to be enshittification: the company makes more money by making it worse for everybody. AI most definitely requires more resources and it seems like those resources will be used to do more, but of lower quality.
Surely that's profitable. But I don't think it is desirable.
Responded to you down below, but will say here that profit is a two-sided coin.
Decreasing the cost of production can lead to more profit or cheaper product prices.
I 100% agree that the trend of quality has been downwards in many things over the past 20 years or so.