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2. thomas 38 min later

   @zachleat ethics (political choice) vs. revenues (economical choice).

3. Stuart Langridge 48 min later

   @zachleat there's usually an implied suggestion in there about precisely *who* it should be making money for, too

   1. Zach Leatherman 55 min later

      @sil the money will trickle down, stuart

      1. Stuart Langridge 1 hr later

         @zachleat I heard a joke once about the money trickling down. But 99% of people didn't get it.

4. Patrick H. Lauke 57 min later

   @zachleat the problem, as ever, is capitalism...

   1. Eric Eggert 1 hr later

      @patrick_h_lauke @zachleat This.

   2. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @patrick_h_lauke yeah… these folks definitely wear that badge on their sleeve

5. Snugug 1 hr later

   @zachleat This feels like the tech/startup corollary of Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it".

6. cthos 🐱 1 hr later

   @zachleat quick add a sleep(3000) to that build pipeline.

7. Alex Russell 1 hr later

   @zachleat Just wait 'till the "oh, these people confuse scale for quality!" hits.

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @slightlyoff https://www.zachleat.com/twitter/981557589627621376 😅

8. Marc-Antoine Ruel 1 hr later

   @zachleat It's the struggle of software that is bucketted as a cost center. Anything "CI" falls in this bucket.

9. Matt Wilcox 1 hr later

   @zachleat Capitalism... doesn't incentivise the best solutions to societal requirements and instead subverts work from a goal of societal benefit into a goal to find the most efficient method of moving the most economic power possible?

   Say it ain't so!

10. Matt Stein 1 hr later

    @zachleat I’m realizing slowly that I’ve bought into this brand of hype. Working on how to re-orient. Blood in the Machine (book) was an energizing wake up call.

11. elevatebart 2 hr later

    @zachleat It is the same paradox as surgeons being paid per surgery.

    If you are sick, they get richer. If you are healthy, they do not. But they need to have good enough results that you still go see them.

    Weird eh!

    1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

       @elevatebart I think the big difference is that physicians are taught from a solid ethical foundation

       I’m reminded of: https://twitter.com/5imian/status/747817906939924482

12. Hugo 雨果 2 hr later

    @zachleat Dot matrix printers are ideal for a lot of use cases (any place the prints only text, like a hospital, pharmacy receipts, etc). They’re the printing solution that makes the least money for the manufacturer, but also the most cheap, sustainable, and convenient solution.

    I was surprised to see so many in China, but it really got me thinking why we don’t use them as much back home.

13. Thomas Michael Semmler 3 hr later

    @zachleat yes absolutely. Industrialization means dehumanization.

    Big frameworks don’t want to adhere to certain standards or implement certain capabilities in order to be more compatible, because it is counter their business case. All projects that somehow depend on this will eventually crumble to the demands of capitalism, unless they remain small. Scaling is the leading difference.

    Even more so, we celebrate tech projects selling to big companies as success.

    1. Thomas Michael Semmler 3 hr later

       @zachleat and as a tribe of people were so, so close to finally talking about it publicly. Yet we are still apologists for all of it.

       We are not even calling out this nonsense. These tech influencers are going about their way, corrupting even more generations of website makers, and all we do is talk about them in code, so that they never know about it.

       And yet last year remix people flat out attacked their „competitors“.

       (Not implying you should name anyone, just saying)

       1. Zach Leatherman 3 hr later

          @nachtfunke to which remix event are you referencing?

          1. Thomas Michael Semmler 3 hr later

             @zachleat ah as I get this notification I regrettably realize there were multiple, lemme see if I can find a reference.

14. Blake Watson 3 hr later

    @zachleat This is one reason I love my obscure little web host, NFSN. They charge for what you use and are just as happy to host low-resource static sites as complex server-side applications. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

15. elle mundy 2 days later

    @zachleat but zach, i thought capitalism was the most efficient system

    1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

       @exchgr did capitalism tell you this

       1. elle mundy 2 days later

          @zachleat n-no? 😳😒