Comment by dimbletimbers
3 days ago
But maybe that’s bad? Maybe keeping everyone just on the verge of leaving or getting hurt isn’t a good place for society to settle?
3 days ago
But maybe that’s bad? Maybe keeping everyone just on the verge of leaving or getting hurt isn’t a good place for society to settle?
Given doing better costs money, and people don't want to pay for better, leaving that place is hard. We've seen the same play out with physical goods - the cheapness of just-good-enough-but-right-now-cheaply outcompetes quality, which costs and takes time.
We as society are choosing to be in that place.
I mean every industry has done this before getting highly regulated. The meat industry was horrific before being forced with fines and shutdowns if they released a bad product.
Software is a market for lemons. There are huge costs for switching, and it's typically very hard to tell what is good. That and with the rate software is updated you have no clue if it will remain good. There are high motivations for short term gains with enshittification all over the market.
Most software doesn’t matter and nothing happens if it’s slightly broken temporarily. The stuff that actually is critical is generally very stable.
Is HR aware you hold these dissident opinions?
You don't have to extrapolate much to conclude that's a general critique of capitalism.
Corporations aim to make the cheapest possible product that still sells because that creates the biggest profit margin.
If we're collectively unhappy with the outcome, that's the core value we need to change.