That’s what has been killing Reddit recently, and Google and FB.
Sure, those leadership teams and early employees are filthy rich but for the rest, it’s always been a bad business model. The incentive is not to provide good services, it’s to hook people up.
It’s predatory.
It’s disrespectful.
It’s manipulative.
I think the bait & switch tactics since 2004 Gmail have convinced those companies that people are pure cattle. You can lead them anywhere, regardless of what they complain about. To this day, including all tech software. Diablo 4, right now.
Look at this: almost twenty years of data-driven push toward “free+ads+IAP” models, because it’s printing money.
This had the effect of:
- Making those giant companies extremely dismissive of what people actually are (multitudes), forcing a one-size fit all approach/trying everything without thinking.
- Making them use hundreds of millions of free workers without re-distributing wealth created, reinforcing their beliefs that we’re cattle.
- Making those tech companies want to nail next generations right now, allowing screens for kids and hoping that retina-scanning monitors that you strap on your face and digital gambling will keep those young folks from enjoying the real world.
We need to fight this, y’all.