Comment by add-sub-mul-div
6 months ago
The tech industry was always a little slimy but it's out of hand now. I've lost too much respect for the role of innovation in this current version of our society. We've passed a point where it's used against people more than for people.
Day after day here watching people with no substantive activity on their account spam their endless shovelware slop projects, I just can't feel like I want to be a part of this anymore.
"Used against people." Those are good words. I am also deeply tired of that. I'm absolutely guilty of being one of those idiots that still thinks we could have nice things and products that work for reasonable prices if we just cared a little.
So much of tech now treats their customers as cattle to be corralled and milked, rather than humans with agency and needs to fulfill with a product. Most of the innovation happening is either in “stronger, more expansive corralling” or “more efficient milking.”