Innovation these days is just "what if I was able to somehow insert myself into this already functioning service and skim some money off it".
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Capitalism bitch! Where the ONLY metric for anything or anyone is how much money can it make.
Rent seeking behavior, the thing capitalism is best at :’)
I've ranted about this for years. I've had a bad streak of luck the past 8 years, and everything I've tried to do to improve my situation has just become an increasingly horrible cesspool of predatory horseshit. Every computer application, service, university, and social program is so much worse than they were 10-15 years ago, and I hate it.
And now we have ten years of fucked up young adults who think this is how it’s always been.
It's literally the bad future from BttF2
Complete with Trump-as-Biff-as-Trump.
Biff wasn't a pedophile who murdered kids though.
... that we know of.
We let the MBAs take over. Our culture has been consumed by the idea that it's ok to say and do absolutely anything in the pursuit of a dollar
Sure wish Americans would do something about this so the rest of the world doesn't have to suffer.
Let's not pretend the rest of the world is so much better. I'll concede the US is winning the race to the bottom. This is the winning Trump was talking about.
The rest of the world is largely getting their cues from the US, though. I wish they wouldn't, but with the massive presence of US media and popular culture, the propaganda hits more than just the US.
with the massive presence of US media and popular culture
Look to the billionaires, the Epstein class, for who’s to blame for that.
Almost a quarter of American adults have never traveled abroad. Only another quarter has been to 5 or more countries. Americans, by and large, only understand the world outside of their own country in the terms American media presents it to them.
You're allowed to do your own thing ya know.
Unless you do your own thing too much and the CIA takes interest.
Oh! I tried to explain to a friend today why LifeLock isn't actually providing him with any useful service today and he just couldn't understand why their "piece of mind" bullshit is all a scam.
It always was.
Check out the UK.
It will get worse. And China will take advantage of it, they're not stupid, it's a no brainer when you have all of the manufacturing and industry and your competition has none.
We set a trap and fell in it
You gotta out scam the scammers.