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The ever-widening gap between what the industry could be - oh, the places we could go! - and what the industry is is a ravenous maw that consumes people and casts up their work for scavenger-shareholders to pick through the leavings, with spreadsheets discarded like bones around them.

Yes. So true

fark its 01:30am and Im writing gibberish like Unless Despite lol

Reactivated by whom? What are any of those business and equipment/machinery creating without human labour? I think you’re missing the point: workers produce all economic value; human labor is the root source of any profit. Anything without workers is just empty buildings and unused equipment.

well said <3

Also everyone in tech. Same reason.

I wish humanities education in America didn't come attached to a system for inflicting life-long debt. Really appreciate the various doctorates putting out free info online, even if I know most of them are only there because real teaching jobs are so under employed.

Get rid of the useless and expensive cocaine suite and your vision is likely to become true.

I am aware of who is the problem. Executives are the most useless type of employee, investors just need to keep their mouth shut and stop trying to interfere as well. Clout chasing isn't a good reason to ruin a game with shitty ideas. The core problem is capitalism but that's not going away.

We have arranged our society and put all made up concepts in the center: Companies, shareholders, money, cars, organisations, rules and regulations. Those are all made up. We can change and shape our society around what really matters : people. We must make sure people thrive.

For starters, the whole hamster mentality has to stop. Unchecked infinite growth has a name: cancer. And it's exactly what happens to once good companies - hamster wheel demands, customers will pay more for less. A company cannot be held liable if they didn't grow. Make it okay not to grow...

There's nothing really wrong with being concerned with profit, the issue is needing to keep growing forever, that it's effectively not permitted to just do one thing well and make money on it. If you become publicly traded, you are now a valuation company, not a products company.

yup the system of incentives will drive any person with the best of intentions to make the same decisions it doesn't matter if you replace every leader with really cool people; the incentive system remains the same and demands the same