but we want more money... And therefore deserve it. I don't see what the problem is here
- every CEO ever, I presume
102Isn't that a novel idea. Just work to make things better and if you succeed you have profits and if you don't back to the drawing board.
Ahhh, what a world we could live in. Back to slumming I guess.
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Enshittification
81Many blind sheep hate that buzzword, but no other word describes capitalistic failure and greed like it.
13Catabolic phase of capitalism
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The short term benefits are the reason they're doing this in the first place.
Immediate revenue and growth is the goal, long term business viability and consumer base is an acceptable sacrifice to meet that goal.
Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits
62Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits
Then they re-hire you for an exorbitant price to fix the problems you created. The Bob Iger technique.
25Or you have a golden parachute clause so you leave with $3.6mil as everything burns around you.
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How come it is sustainable when executives or even workers are not even interested in their own product. I know a few devs at some mid sized company and they don't even care about what they are working on
7There is such a huge sludge of dumb and inane softwares that inevitably some people will work on things that they don't care about.
Some people just want the paycheck and that's fine.
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Not just companies, you’ve got countries doing epic face-plants all over as well. We’re living in the Age of Dipshits ruining stuff for everyone.
56In general those countries are just three companies in a trench coat, stealing the money from citizens. US including.
16Welcome to the new dark age
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reddit belongs on that list
56and you know what, it won't matter. not one bit. because people are lazy and people don't care or are indifferent.
look at reddit. big uproar....for a few days, weeks. now pretty much back to normal.
even myself, I still go back to certain communities because they don't exist elsewhere. and like someone else said it's not just software or platforms, it's people and countries, etc. etc.
it's hard to make changes and have them stick. it's even harder to convince people to leave the easy and known for the not so easy and unknown.
and I think we're going to see lots more....lots, lots more. it will be the new normal.
49I still left Reddit and unity and haven't returned. Some people do care. Not everyone is indifferent.
48And god forbid you point out the fact that this attitude among consumers is exactly the reason these companies are brazen enough to pull this shit. People don't want to hear how their attitudes around instant gratification and focus on convenience over absolutely all else just might have consequences.
28I literally debated someone yesterday over whether or not it's the consumers willingness to buy that created the demand for a product.
Dude straight up tried to argue that it's the company's fault for making a product, as if they wouldn't do it specifically because they're going to make money on it.
This website is full of kids who can't grasp basic economic principles. If everyone stopped buying, all these businesses would go under. They don't care about the social media bitching, the only way to get the message across is the only thing they care about.
Stop giving them your money.
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Unity was the biggest stumble.
Publishers hate surprise fees, distribution platforms absolutely won't pay per download, developers (companies) are stretching budgets as it is, and the individual developers are quick to anger and will hold a grudge for eternity.
They really gutted themselves.
15The stupid idea went forward despite warning from people within the fucking company, no less. All because they wanted to get some of Hoyogames (Genshin and Honkai Impact)'s juicy profits
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I went to reddit for Valve memes, but now I decided to make my own community here for it. The only problem is NO ONE ELSE FUCKING POSTS!
10What's the Lemmy community? I'm already subbed to sourcememes.
Edit: oh yeah that's just you. Enjoying your content and will try to post occasionally
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The only time I use reddit Is when Google is straight up useless and I gotta put reddit at the end of a search
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Don't forget Hasbro trying to pull a retroactive licensing for all D&D stuff. Oh, and sending the Pikertons to harass a person that got set of cards before release by accident
36I still can't believe all that BS and with the escapist, losing Yhatzee must be a devastating blow to their value.
30They lost everyone, the entire staff walked out.
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I mean it's a bit more complicated than that. In the past not every company had to be profitable. They were just focusing growth over everything else. But with rising cost due to inflation and rising interest rates they suddenly have to become profitable. And then they proceed to make to worst ever business decisions, to become profitable, but achieve the exact opposite.
23Its simple greed and disdain for their users that they somehow believe if they begin to charge for something that used to be free the use base will simply eat it and be happy.
14The problem is they arr charging for a service with attention (ads) and user info currencies that people do not value as much and cannot be easily quantified. This then makes people complacent and lets companies reach for more information, leading to the current enshitification of the internet
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It's a pretty severe contradiction of capitalism: When everyone is out to extract as much money as possible, all of it is going to go to whoever the best at doing that, leaving very little for everyone else. This capital isn't being used to better the human race, it's sitting in an offshore bank account, funding far right death squads and/or genocides, or being spent on the most vile of child exploitation.
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Be loyal to people, not companies.
16Reminds me of reddit.
13"The riskier the road, the greater the profit." ~Rules of Acquisition #62
13I know let's make subscription model loot box pay to win
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Don't give them ideas!!
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It’s fucking incredible isn’t it
9Unity has been shitty since they merged with Ironsource. They're an Ad company now (notice how mobile ads sometimes have the familiar Unity logo now? Yeah that's why)
6Guy looks like he just did the boiling water challenge
3Lmaoooooo Google is doing better than ever. They do not give a shit about 1000 lemmy users.
You fuckers won't even pay for yt, and screech every time you see an add. What about any of that screams loyal community?
-27If they're doing better than ever, then why are they trying to constantly hack through my ad blocker now in a desperate attempt to show me an ad one way or another? I'm always gonna be one step ahead. They lost the game before they started. But they still won't give up for some reason. That's a lot of resources for a company to spend on someone that will never give a shit and keep blocking the ads.
23Full market saturation. They aren't getting new customers, especially from that ad blocking I won't pay for shit crowd. They'll probably pull at least a few customers up a tier, and they'll reduce compute costs booting the babies who won't pay or watch ads.
It's just common sense business. That's how you make money.
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Most of these companies have one thing in common: indian CEOs. Not meaning to be racist, but it's not a mere coincidence.
-63You were racist without meaning to be. Which makes you a racist, still.
19My apologies
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Not meaning to be racist, but
Proceeds to say something completely, like pre WW2 level, racist
3I’d assume it’s because there’s probably a lot of Indians at tech companies in general. Personally I’ve seen alot in tech jobs, but also one random statistic I saw said 1/3 of all software engineers and 10% of tech company CEOs are of Indian origin, so it’s a fairly significant number.
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