I really wish people would understand that most often, hostile corporate decisions don’t start with someone rubbing their hands together and going for the most greedy cartoon-villain option.
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I really wish people would understand that most often, hostile corporate decisions don’t start with someone rubbing their hands together and going for the most greedy cartoon-villain option. I mean that DOES happen, but most of the time evil is so much more banal and base than that.
Mostly it starts with an option floated to solve a genuine problem. And then the greed takes hold and the leaders notice that with a couple of tweaks … hey presto! We make more money.
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I really wish people would understand that most often, hostile corporate decisions don’t start with someone rubbing their hands together and going for the most greedy cartoon-villain option. I mean that DOES happen, but most of the time evil is so much more banal and base than that.
Mostly it starts with an option floated to solve a genuine problem. And then the greed takes hold and the leaders notice that with a couple of tweaks … hey presto! We make more money.
Like some telemetry software choices start out as “man we really just want to understand how people are actually using this thing, so we can make better software”. And then someone says “well since we have this data, could we use it to tell people when they’re trying to do something that would be easier with an upgrade?”
And it feels off, but that also seems pretty reasonable all in all. And then they get increasingly “how do we get more value”
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Like some telemetry software choices start out as “man we really just want to understand how people are actually using this thing, so we can make better software”. And then someone says “well since we have this data, could we use it to tell people when they’re trying to do something that would be easier with an upgrade?”
And it feels off, but that also seems pretty reasonable all in all. And then they get increasingly “how do we get more value”
And at some point it gets really not ok. And the people who said no at first are dismissed as weirdos, and the people saying no *now* are too small a voice because everyone knows they can’t tell the people at the top “we should make less money because I’m uncomfortable”
And it’s no less evil, but at no point was anyone a cartoon villain.
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