JA WestenbergEvery startup pitch is “what if [thing that exists] but [worse in ways we’ll discover later]” + “first principles thinking” which is why we keep re-inventing pressed juice, buses and the concept of having neighbours
Michael Gemar@Daojoan @cjmoorehead “…and so today we’re pleased to announce Poopr, our AI-powered subscription service to manage your most personal waste…”
epilonious@michaelgemar @Daojoan @cjmoorehead this may be a joke but I remember the onslaught of Squatty Potty step stools, Tushi Bidets, and various better-than-paper bath tissue that brought venture capitol into everyone's bathrooms and didn't really materialize more than weird tech bro suspicions of gender crimes that were apparently happening in them.
Tim Richards@Daojoan A lot of the stuff from the tech bros seems to boil down to "What if [thing that exists] but without poor people?"
@timrichards @Daojoan and then the venture capitol phase is baiting poor people with inflated rates and then the post IPO is basically dropping the rates to skyrocket profit and lawyer pay, ensuring the non-union contract employees (poor people) get the heaviest kicks in the teeth for the esteem switch out of enshittification.
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Sharp Leaves@Daojoan you seem to have been on a really good run with this thought that the alleged 'big ideas' these people have are just them bumping into the big philosophical questions for the first time, in ignorance of all the work and testing that's gone on before them, drawing a square around a circle and calling it solved (to applause + money).
I mean that genuinely. This is like splitting the atom, or at the very least collapsing the illusion of the last 30 years of culture. Please keep going.