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0 pointssalawat3y ago0 comments

And thus we come back to the age old quandry. The implicit act of economic violence tucked away into our current society.

I have capital, you don't, do what I want, or starve.

It always comes back to violence.

This is why we waste so much time reinventing things and white labelling, and subjecting other professions to the most ungodly tooling. We mass-produce suffering. We engineer it into the product in the form of lack of care under the guide of "we're innovating guyz".

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KronisLV3y ago

Ehh, that's a somewhat grim view, though I doubt I can offer many valuable points about the wider nature of capitalism as a whole.

That said, what I can say is that there definitely is a wide spectrum of different circumstances that people are dealing with and therefore the level of care that certain things will get will also vary.

For example, would it be cool to spend 2 decades working on the perfect GUI framework that'd be tested, dependable, performant and would also have exceedingly good usability? Sure. Is that going to happen in our current world? Perhaps not.

But hey, starting out with a bit of pushback and selling the concept of TDD or quality gates is a start as well, or even having proper tests for all of the important business logic, whilst willingly ignoring (putting off) the things that are just infeasible.

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