Looking at you, Google and Unity.

but we want more money... And therefore deserve it. I don't see what the problem is here

every CEO ever, I presume

Isn't that a novel idea. Just work to make things better and if you succeed you have profits and if you don't back to the drawing board.
Ahhh, what a world we could live in. Back to slumming I guess.

Enshittification

Many blind sheep hate that buzzword, but no other word describes capitalistic failure and greed like it.

The short term benefits are the reason they're doing this in the first place.

Immediate revenue and growth is the goal, long term business viability and consumer base is an acceptable sacrifice to meet that goal.

Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits

Who cares if the company went under five months after I left! When I was the CEO we had record profits
Then they re-hire you for an exorbitant price to fix the problems you created. The Bob Iger technique.
- Or you have a golden parachute clause so you leave with $3.6mil as everything burns around you.
How come it is sustainable when executives or even workers are not even interested in their own product. I know a few devs at some mid sized company and they don't even care about what they are working on
- There is such a huge sludge of dumb and inane softwares that inevitably some people will work on things that they don't care about.
  Some people just want the paycheck and that's fine.

and you know what, it won't matter. not one bit. because people are lazy and people don't care or are indifferent.

look at reddit. big uproar....for a few days, weeks. now pretty much back to normal.

even myself, I still go back to certain communities because they don't exist elsewhere. and like someone else said it's not just software or platforms, it's people and countries, etc. etc.

it's hard to make changes and have them stick. it's even harder to convince people to leave the easy and known for the not so easy and unknown.

and I think we're going to see lots more....lots, lots more. it will be the new normal.

I still left Reddit and unity and haven't returned. Some people do care. Not everyone is indifferent.
- Right here with you friend. Fuck reddit, they burned me hard by killing Sync. The most I use it is when I'm googling something I need.
- I was a victim of reddit's "Randomly permaban everyone" strangely
And god forbid you point out the fact that this attitude among consumers is exactly the reason these companies are brazen enough to pull this shit. People don't want to hear how their attitudes around instant gratification and focus on convenience over absolutely all else just might have consequences.
- I literally debated someone yesterday over whether or not it's the consumers willingness to buy that created the demand for a product.
  Dude straight up tried to argue that it's the company's fault for making a product, as if they wouldn't do it specifically because they're going to make money on it.
  This website is full of kids who can't grasp basic economic principles. If everyone stopped buying, all these businesses would go under. They don't care about the social media bitching, the only way to get the message across is the only thing they care about.
  Stop giving them your money.
Unity was the biggest stumble.
Publishers hate surprise fees, distribution platforms absolutely won't pay per download, developers (companies) are stretching budgets as it is, and the individual developers are quick to anger and will hold a grudge for eternity.
They really gutted themselves.
- The stupid idea went forward despite warning from people within the fucking company, no less. All because they wanted to get some of Hoyogames (Genshin and Honkai Impact)'s juicy profits
I went to reddit for Valve memes, but now I decided to make my own community here for it. The only problem is NO ONE ELSE FUCKING POSTS!
- What's the Lemmy community? I'm already subbed to sourcememes.
  Edit: oh yeah that's just you. Enjoying your content and will try to post occasionally
The only time I use reddit Is when Google is straight up useless and I gotta put reddit at the end of a search

reddit belongs on that list

Don't forget Hasbro trying to pull a retroactive licensing for all D&D stuff. Oh, and sending the Pikertons to harass a person that got set of cards before release by accident

Sending Pinkertons after a civilian was extremely fucked up, especially for a fuckup they made. The Pinkertons are basically a neo-nazi militia.
- I didn't even think they still existed till then

I still can't believe all that BS and with the escapist, losing Yhatzee must be a devastating blow to their value.

They've released a couple of his pre-recorded videos but turned off the comments. They know they fucked up. 🤣
- Glad to see Fully Ramblomatic up and running, here's to hoping they thrive.
- Oddly enough, the Frost's video on Second Wind very succinctly explained why these things happen.
They lost everyone, the entire staff walked out.

I mean it's a bit more complicated than that. In the past not every company had to be profitable. They were just focusing growth over everything else. But with rising cost due to inflation and rising interest rates they suddenly have to become profitable. And then they proceed to make to worst ever business decisions, to become profitable, but achieve the exact opposite.

It's a pretty severe contradiction of capitalism: When everyone is out to extract as much money as possible, all of it is going to go to whoever the best at doing that, leaving very little for everyone else. This capital isn't being used to better the human race, it's sitting in an offshore bank account, funding far right death squads and/or genocides, or being spent on the most vile of child exploitation.
Its simple greed and disdain for their users that they somehow believe if they begin to charge for something that used to be free the use base will simply eat it and be happy.
- The problem is they arr charging for a service with attention (ads) and user info currencies that people do not value as much and cannot be easily quantified. This then makes people complacent and lets companies reach for more information, leading to the current enshitification of the internet

Be loyal to people, not companies.

Reminds me of reddit.

It’s fucking incredible isn’t it

Most of these companies have one thing in common: indian CEOs. Not meaning to be racist, but it's not a mere coincidence.

Ahh yes riccitiello, a fine Indian name if ever I heard one. Fuck outta here with your racial observations.
- Elon, a famous Indian CEO
- I said most companies. Google, microsoft, etc.
You know what's even more common amongst CEOs than being Indian? Using capitalism to organize and run the business.
It's not indian CEOs, you utter numpty. It's basic greed.
- My bad. I wasn't meaning to be racist.
You were racist without meaning to be. Which makes you a racist, still.
- My apologies

Guy looks like he just did the boiling water challenge