• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    29 days ago

    The product didn’t fail, American business culture failed.

    they should have worked this into the title:

    "A company needs to grow.

    In the past few decades, the idea that every company should be growing, predictably and boundlessly and forever, has leached from the technology industry into much of the rest of American business."

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      28 days ago

      I don’t understand this. What is wrong with a stable company that maintains its size?

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        28 days ago

        The thing wrong with a stable company is that it doesn’t afford those at the top uncontrollable, disproportionate influence and profit.

        American business culture disdains stable companies that maintain their size.

        American business culture advocates for and promotes unlimited expansion and profit increase above all else, which is obviously unsustainable and distracts from creating good products or social benefit If you put a moment of thought into it, and benefits the one or few at the top while exploiting everybody else.

        When that venture inevitably fails, the winners at the top get to exploit their ill-gotten profit to influence culture at large, radicalize the exploited and propagate the exploitative system.

        The winners are shuffled around, and continue making obscene profit from each successive top position at the expense of their society, simultaneously creating and breaking laws to further their selfish, unsustainable gain.