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.
- 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.
Well, that's kind of a mix of both categories, to be fair