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0 pointsTheGRS2y ago0 comments

I still think its overly simplistic. One man's growth for growth sake is another man's innovation to gain some unrealized value. I'm not a huge fan of penny-pinching either, but there is good in finding alternative paths for your expenses. Sometimes its crappy for the end product, sometimes you save a million dollars a year by printing stamps instead of buying them. And a company should be expected to defend its business practices in court, but sometimes they're scummy practices that the general public disagrees with.

But I find it difficult to separate these just on the idea of growth being a bad mindset. Lack of ethics or quality mindset might be the better thing to go after here, since that seems to be where most of the disagreeable actions come from.

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manuelmoreale2y ago

Of course is overly simplistic. It’s a rant. I’m not trying to propose an alternative here because I’m not an idiot and I know there aren’t any.

It’s human nature. If one stops doing it someone else will take their place.

I just hate the state of the world in this specific context.

And again, I don’t have anything against growth itself. Growth is a byproduct. I have an issue when growth becomes a motivating force. Because it pushes well intentioned people in wrong directions.

The entire enshittification of the web is a testament of that.

There was a time when companies, local ones, were happy to have reached a steady state. You make a product people want, you’re earning more than you’re spending, you’re employing a bunch of people and that’s fine.

That entire concept seems to be forgotten because of this silly growth at all cost mindset.

That’s what bothers me.

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