Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.
I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
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god I hope so. But I don't think they will be that lucky.
Itll just be centralized worse imo but i think people will use it less
would be cool if everyone spent more time outside, dating apps ceased to exist, etc.
The laws of movement of capital prevent that. When capitalism is in crisis, the bigger fish wins and proletarization takes over as larger companies acquire smaller ones without the market cap to survive the crisis, and everyone who had aspired to succeed independently will be rendered another proletarian. We'll be seeing Meta buying up many of these services that are floundering.
Maybe...but Meta fucked up with VR...they may not have the capital, which means the consolidation will be kicked upstairs to Wall Street.
If Meta doesn't have the Capital to do it, who does? Is the entire world and everything in it going to be owned by Amazon and Blackrock in the not-too-distant future?