Anil DashMar 16, 2023
I’m eavesdropping (well, they’re so loud I can’t ignore them) on two young startup guys at this coffee shop, a version of a conversation I’ve heard a million times. But what’s striking vs 10 or 15 years ago is… almost nothing they’re talking about is the tech. Everything is financial engineering and how to hustle the ecosystem. Nothing about products or even markets and competition, all fussing about banks and crypto and VCs. Explains a lot about my fatigue over the industry in general.
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 17, 2023

Modern corporate life has gone beyond just the enshittification of products & services.

It's not just about watering down the seafood chowder to make more profit anymore.

It has morphed from a focus on making the best seafood chowder in the world to:

1. Figuring out how to monetize pictures of chowder

2. Conning banks into funding the sale of the smell of chowder

3. Convincing consumers that renting a chowder temporarily is better than permanently owning the right to the consumption ...
1/2

Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 17, 2023

2/2
... of chowder

4. Lying about the contents of chowder

5. Enriching the 1% by promising a future chowder

6. Ignoring the consequences of everyone eating chowder every day as species go extinct

7. Promoting political gains by lying about a past "glorious lost" chowder

8. Getting voters to vote away their rights to eat or buy chowder when they want to "own the libs"

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Npars01 (every time I see that word)
Mar 17, 2023 at 1:40amWeb
Show threadNicole ParsonsMar 17, 2023

@Lazarou

The analogy is from a business book I read years ago. Cannot remember the name or author though.