• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    The product didn’t fail, American business culture failed.

    they should have worked this into the title:

    "A company needs to grow.

    In the past few decades, the idea that every company should be growing, predictably and boundlessly and forever, has leached from the technology industry into much of the rest of American business."

    • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      I don’t understand this. What is wrong with a stable company that maintains its size?

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        The thing wrong with a stable company is that it doesn’t afford those at the top uncontrollable, disproportionate influence and profit.

        American business culture disdains stable companies that maintain their size.

        American business culture advocates for and promotes unlimited expansion and profit increase above all else, which is obviously unsustainable and distracts from creating good products or social benefit If you put a moment of thought into it, and benefits the one or few at the top while exploiting everybody else.

        When that venture inevitably fails, the winners at the top get to exploit their ill-gotten profit to influence culture at large, radicalize the exploited and propagate the exploitative system.

        The winners are shuffled around, and continue making obscene profit from each successive top position at the expense of their society, simultaneously creating and breaking laws to further their selfish, unsustainable gain.

  • remer@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Does everybody here have an atlantic subscription or did nobody actually read the paywalled article?

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      8 months ago

      I just turn of javascript using Ublock origin and it just removes the paywall from the article, since it’s written in JS :D

    • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      I have a theory that shitty products fundamentaly out-compete good products today because its way cheaper to market your product as good than to actually develop it well. I call it the craptocracy

      • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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        2 years ago

        I want to see craptocracy trend so hard that it makes it into spellcheckers.