I think like, the death of Vine and Rabbit, Wikipedia constantly needing to beg for money, Discord depending so heavily on venture capital, Facebook turning towards spying on users to generate a return on all the venture capital that got them started, Adobe creative suite turning into a subscription rather than a single product you buy, the strangulation of streaming entertainment as every company pulls their content and makes it exclusive to their service, are all great examples of how like, it really doesn’t matter if something is legitimately useful, efficient, or beloved, it is next to impossible for a service to exist if it doesn’t make shareholders increasing amounts of money year after year. Which may seem like a “no duh” type of statement, but it’s a very simple window into how the profit motive makes products and services worse, not better. And how that’s not just a matter of certain companies or ceos being bad and greedy on an individual level, but is an inescapable factor of an economy where existence is dependent on generating capital
>>517705334That's where you get even more creative. You set up venture capital funds. You create an artificial intelligence unit to buy up shares that make money from investments that are more mainstream or financially capable, and you create a demand in said company for a product or service you don't actually need, but for which you have viable legislation in your favor. You now created a "virtual consumer". Fake people, buying fake services, that only surrounding companies actually profit off of. Entire farms of Ai controlled enterprises. Buying and selling from each other like an oversaturated TF2 hat farm. The Zombie Capitalist Theorem taken to an extreme. I call it "The Lich".https://youtu.be/37kjXWxGQGU
