It seems like most of the industry is pushing bits around or trying to make specific shareholders rich at the cost of everyone else.
Rambling, but it you get any good insights I'm definitely interested in hearing them
My co-worker from a decade ago named it "shovelling virtual gravel" and I think this expression really catches the spirit of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36508063
It seems so obvious, but it’s also easy to lose sight of, especially when technology is so interesting!
I haven't worked in a single company that have succeeded in making their owners rich without giving the clients what they want. Have you? The only entities I know that do that are organised crime and governments.
Well, that's kind of a mix of both categories, to be fair
- Everything Microsoft has been doing to windows: adding ads, shuffling the UI around, resetting the defaults every update
- see also: reddit, facebook, everything else in it's "enshitification" phase
- Anything involving ads is (imo) polluting the world
- Things that are literally polluting the world (usually not tech, but sometimes)
do on net these companies do more good for the world than bad? maybe, but certainly most of the work going into them seems to be in "capturing value" which is of no use to me. Most of the proprietary software I've used has slowly gotten worse over time.
I think that's a little sad.
Not saying anything else.