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Written by alcinnz on 2025-01-21 at 18:55

I've pondered whether a decade or 2 ago we reached sufficiency for home computing.

This morning it strikes me that's about when the industry seems to have fully switched from innovating useful products to innovating new ways to profit. Could there be an explanation for this correlation?

Edit: "Fully" is an important word!

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Descendants

Written by alcinnz on 2025-01-22 at 00:51

Could it be that when we computer touchers were fighting our computers to get decent performance, that we got more say on the problems we tackled?

That deeper expertise made it harder to fire us?

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Written by Nick | OneThingWell.dev on 2025-01-21 at 20:49

@alcinnz

"When profit is the motor of society, destruction is considered as progress."

I don't remember who is the author of this quote, but it captures well what is wrong with this society.

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