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I think maybe you have to go back further. 20 years ago. Companies seemed to care about building great products, stronger vision, more open web, engineering mattered etc etc. Now it seems the tech world is only about making money and increasing share price.

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Once things go from product focused to profit focused, the ranks start getting filled with administrative roles. Then it's just a matter of time until the balance tips and the iron law of bureaucracy goes into full effect.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

"tech" is just the most recent place this has happened but you can see it repeated through out the last century+ of industrialized corporations.

20 years ago we were coming out of the .com bubble so all the excitement had been pounded out of tech for a short while

I agree the financialisation of everything really sours tech though.

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