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We\u2019re Grandpa Simpson, all the time<\/em> <\/p>\n
It\u2019s been all about growth no matter what for decades. But we cannot grow anymore, pretty much anywhere you look at.<\/p>\n
If we do grow \u2013say games industry- careers are limited in time (average career in that field is eight years, which will not be enough for your life\/retirement) and space (there\u2019s only a few studios which can sustain you an eight-year+ career, otherwise it\u2019s freelancing and inshallah).<\/p>\n
Progress in technology always offsets new careers, faster and faster. For instance, we kind of forgot about driverless cars, but they never stopped making progress. They\u2019re about to reach the level needed to be deployed; any industry needing drivers is going to be impacted so, so hard in the next five to ten years. 24\/7, autonomous vehicles? Just imagine how much it will disrupt the world.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile business growth doesn\u2019t answer anything about wages and Quality of Life; sure, everyone can start their little business that can grow into something huge, but nobody has the money to subscribe to everything that is subscription-based which turns out, is everything. <\/p>\n
We can\u2019t all start selling $60 white shirts while subscribing to patreons and podcasts and having four jobs. Numbers don\u2019t add up, time being the first: there\u2019s not enough time for all that work and hustle.<\/p>\n
Sustainable small businesses \u2013which are rare- die in the hands of growing businesses, which are aggressively suffocating those small businesses so, we lose this option all the time. The pandemic aggravated the issue tenfold.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s the end game for businesses? To sell to a megacorp? What megacorps are going to do? They’re already megacorps. These days they\u2019re bored and don\u2019t know what else to do; they\u2019re done growing, they own everything and now they sit with treasure chests that are kind of useless because all the money in the world doesn\u2019t change anything if it just sits in a tax haven<\/a>. Megacorps make more money per year than some countries. That\u2019s quite new, and insane.<\/p>\n I see programmers complain so much about app stores shenanigans and 30% cut etc. But that\u2019s how those megacorps are printing money while customers try to sustain their businesses as best as they can. Meta just announced a 47% cut on in-VR sales. Before taxes? I can\u2019t comprehend how things get worse. Nobody will be able to sustain any kind of business in VR with a cut that large so what\u2019s the end game here?<\/p>\n We look like headless chicken running around with the only thing stopping us being a body slam.<\/p>\n It\u2019s all messed up and absolutely unsustainable. We need to redistribute wealth better and slow down the economy for climate change purposes. We just do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s something that just doesn\u2019t compute with capitalist economy. We\u2019re Grandpa Simpson, all the time It\u2019s been all about growth no matter what for decades. But we cannot grow anymore, pretty much anywhere you look at. If we do grow \u2013say games industry- careers are limited in time (average career in that field is eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}