Comment by LadyCailin
2 days ago
> It's really hard to be a publicly-traded corporation and user-first.
You aren’t wrong, but I hate that you aren’t. It’s a shame there is so little regulation and that things are getting more and more expensive and complex to initially develop, that there just isn’t really a free market anymore for many important things.
I hate that I'm not, too.
Particularly since the 1980s, I feel like we've veered too far toward obtaining maximum profit at the expense of true innovation and developing products that truly serve the customer.
The cows don't get a say in how they are milked.
The consumers have what corporations want: money. If enough consumers get together and withhold money, they get a say.
That said, there's a very concerted, even at times gamified, effort against making it easy for consumers to do this. Nonetheless, consumers do have that choice.