02-03-2022, 08:50 AM
The issue that I've always had with big tech is that I do not think big tech and capitalism fit well together.
quickly in a couple of steps.
1. Some dude creates an amazing service, apparently a garage is their favorite place to figure this out.
2. The service grows because it's good. It gets investors and other backers because it's good and # of users is exploding.
3. These services are, almost always, created by a user for a user. It takes significant effort to transform them from a good service, to a profitable service.
4. And that is where it fails. The creativity, the passion, the idea of what we had in step 1 is gone. It's replaced by the need to monetize these millions/billions of users.
5. At some point, some dude makes a better version of this service in their garage. One that is made by a user, for a user. One that is focused on providing a good service, not at profiting from it's users in any way imaginable. We are back at step 1.
I may be young but I've spent a fair part of my life around computers. There are very, VERY few companies that I have seen avoid the above when you look at it from a long enough time frame. Microsoft is a good example of one that did avoid it. Google seems invincible now, and may very well be due to it's place in our culture. However, the large majority of Google's products, including their famed search engine, are inferior to what you can find if you go looking into the garages of people in "step 1" of my amazing "tech vs capitalism manifesto."
quickly in a couple of steps.
1. Some dude creates an amazing service, apparently a garage is their favorite place to figure this out.
2. The service grows because it's good. It gets investors and other backers because it's good and # of users is exploding.
3. These services are, almost always, created by a user for a user. It takes significant effort to transform them from a good service, to a profitable service.
4. And that is where it fails. The creativity, the passion, the idea of what we had in step 1 is gone. It's replaced by the need to monetize these millions/billions of users.
5. At some point, some dude makes a better version of this service in their garage. One that is made by a user, for a user. One that is focused on providing a good service, not at profiting from it's users in any way imaginable. We are back at step 1.
I may be young but I've spent a fair part of my life around computers. There are very, VERY few companies that I have seen avoid the above when you look at it from a long enough time frame. Microsoft is a good example of one that did avoid it. Google seems invincible now, and may very well be due to it's place in our culture. However, the large majority of Google's products, including their famed search engine, are inferior to what you can find if you go looking into the garages of people in "step 1" of my amazing "tech vs capitalism manifesto."