• Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    8 hours ago

    I get the impression that many companies don’t care about the product or consumer anymore. That seems bizarre, but in a world where money is made up, maybe it makes sense.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s because companies aren’t run by Joe Business anymore, who founded the company and has been in the Business business for three generations. It’s a hedge fund now and the 40 layers of middle management just need the line to go up. Then they get a bonus and a pat on the back for crushing their KPIs.

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      4 hours ago

      that means ai is just there to pump up stocks and valuations while saying they are valuable but really producing nothing of value and just stealing from tax payers as a strategy next admin will need to hammer on ai and just ban it from usa completely for using it for replacing jobs in general instead of making things cost less ai used to make things cost more

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      6 hours ago

      They need number to go up 30x from when they bought it so they can sell and do it again or just coast forever