Post #1680701

2026-01-27 20:26 UTC

@pauleveritt @trishagee Capitalism optimizes on maximal inutility: that's the long and short of it. The ideal capitalist business makes infinite profit while achieving zero, because *achievement* and doing things that are of genuine use to the people is costly. It's so much easier to generate automated junk, and charge up the wazoo for it.

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@alyx_woodward@universeodon.com 2026-01-27 20:30

@pauleveritt @trishagee And when your only "metric" for whether something is GOOD or not is whether it's possible to generate profit with it, then where's the incentive to make anything that actually WORKS? I don't suppose either of you, given the nature of how you make your money, is bound to have noticed this, but #software in general has been degenerating into unusable rubbish over the last few decades and the #AI / #LLM craze clearly represents the _reductio ad absurdum_ of that lengthy process of degeneration. Most decisions in corporate #technology about software development are made by people who (a) do no actual work for a living and (b) have such privileged sinecure posts in society that they never actually have to face up to the consequences of profiting from the vending of junk.

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