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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?

    I think that’s the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don’t care about the product. They just want their portfolio’s value to go up.

    The leadership doesn’t care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they’re golden.

    The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn’t personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don’t have any power.

    So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don’t have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.













  • Half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level. This is haunting.

    Some strikingly high percentage can’t complete complicated tasks on a computer (eg: find 3 user email addresses and add them to a spreadsheet).

    Reading the manual is good advice but I think some people are just left behind