I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks.
Understanding this Google se...
What are you, a Communist? How could being for the people ever maximize profits? It’s not “against” the people, it’s extracting value from the people, that’s the holy grail of all corporations: maximizing shareholder value, and customers aren’t shareholders, customers hold the value that’s to be maximally extracted / transferred to the shareholders. It’s all corporations’ fiduciary duty to their shareholders to do this, literally bound by law. /s
In times gone by, brands meant something, customer loyalty was a kind of collective bargaining.
Today, everything is fast-fashion. Companies trade brand names like twin sisters trade clothes. If a brand still holds any kind of value in the marketplace, it’s more likely to be sold and cashed out as a premium label applied to cheaply made shoddy product than it is to be built up with better reputation for the future. Products themselves are carefully designed to self-destruct to create future demand. The market needs to be restructured to put total cost of ownership AND disposal front and center in the purchasing selection process.
On the other hand, it would just be nice if they can avoid starting the Mad Max Apocalypse until after I’m dead, thanks.
It’s “nice” to see others that are also such cynicals in these times. So it’s not just me seeing that. Would give some comfort if it wasn’t so sad to begin with.
Virtually everyone, unfortunately
Stupid fucking monopolies…can any of those ever mayhaps be FOR the people, not against them? Is that too much to ask?
What are you, a Communist? How could being for the people ever maximize profits? It’s not “against” the people, it’s extracting value from the people, that’s the holy grail of all corporations: maximizing shareholder value, and customers aren’t shareholders, customers hold the value that’s to be maximally extracted / transferred to the shareholders. It’s all corporations’ fiduciary duty to their shareholders to do this, literally bound by law. /s
It’s possible to rake in shareholder value AND offer a good product people enjoy.
Here are some great examples of that:
In times gone by, brands meant something, customer loyalty was a kind of collective bargaining.
Today, everything is fast-fashion. Companies trade brand names like twin sisters trade clothes. If a brand still holds any kind of value in the marketplace, it’s more likely to be sold and cashed out as a premium label applied to cheaply made shoddy product than it is to be built up with better reputation for the future. Products themselves are carefully designed to self-destruct to create future demand. The market needs to be restructured to put total cost of ownership AND disposal front and center in the purchasing selection process.
On the other hand, it would just be nice if they can avoid starting the Mad Max Apocalypse until after I’m dead, thanks.
It’s “nice” to see others that are also such cynicals in these times. So it’s not just me seeing that. Would give some comfort if it wasn’t so sad to begin with.
Meaning: absolutely. Nothing to object or add 😑