Just checking it out. Seein’ what’s goin’ on.
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Here is the thing you have to understand about VCs (and therefore, companies and websites that have accepted VC money), always and forever. Repeat it like a mantra.
--- Venture capitalists do not invest in the company. Venture capitalists invest in the exit. ---
Eventually any site, app whatever has a Sell Out Moment. They get bought by a big established corp, they go IPO, something. There is an "Exit". If you accept VC money, you are *promising* that Exit day is coming and it will be *big*.
“We shouldn’t have hired so quickly. We were just caught up in a frenzy, doing what everyone else is doing.”
“Now we’re laying people off just like everyone else is. You should totally trust us this time that we aren’t just caught up in a frenzy again.” 🙄
Meanwhile, I wonder how big a bonus the CEO will get for making this “difficult decision.”
Over a million Americans have died from covid in the last 4 years, and people act like I’m a weirdo for wearing a mask at the grocery store.
But hey, every time I go to the airport, I can get nudie-scanned and crotch-groped, because 0.005 times that many people died 22 years ago.
That’s what I’m never gonna forget.
1990s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for
2020s web experience
- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway
grocery store chains: we set record profits this year
retail chains: we've never made so much money
energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record
news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably
“Can you write this code for me?”
“Sure, I’m at my computer. I’ll have it for you in an hour.”
“Oh, no, we need you to drive 45 minutes to a building we own and write it there.”
“You’ll give me an office in your building?”
“Of course not. You have to sit at a desk in a big room with a bunch of other people talking around you.”
“So I just get a desk?”
“You wish. You have to take turns sharing the desk with other people.”
“…”
“So when can we have that code?”
“…”
“Damn, all these people working from home is sure hurting productivity.”
I’m “opposed to capitalism” the way someone drowning in the ocean is “opposed to water”.
Maybe if we had some concept of “public good” in areas like healthcare or transportation, that wasn’t subject to the whims of capital, then I wouldn’t blame capitalism for everything that’s broken.
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