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0 pointsmatheusmoreira3y ago0 comments

> choose tools and services where the maker's purpose for making it aligns with your purpose for using it

What if they don't exist anymore? Because not taking advantage of your users by advertising to them means leaving money on the table. Eventually some executive is gonna show up, notice that and demand that it be done because his compensation is directly tied to revenue growth or something.

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grey_earthling3y ago

Yep. I'm saying: avoid things that exist primarily to make loads of money.

Smaller, looser, less-commercial organisations have fewer or no executives, less concern with making as much money as possible, and (in my opinion) tend to produce less bullshit.

This is distinct from producing good-quality work — their output may be unpolished, but it'll generally be sincere, and free of over-commercialised tat.

Eisenstein3y ago

Which ISP, phone company, or electrical utility company works like that? They don't, because we have (hopefully) regulated them. There is a point in which a product stops becoming a choice and starts becoming necessary to function. You could argue that operating systems are one of those things. Lets put some ideas together for regulation in these spheres.

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