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I feel that the majority of innovation occuring in modern capitalism is confined to two key areas:
Regulatory capture and market control.
New ways to mindfuck people into overpaying for goods and services.
Productive innovation ceases the moment growth has reached its peak. It is then replaced by counterproductive "innovation", such as finding new ways to nickel and dime your customers, reduction in quality or dismissal of employees. All in the name of simulating "growth" to please the shareholders.
The entire country has incentivized its top minds to developing ad tech bullshit. Like literally our astrophysicists are working at Stitch Fix instead of doing astrophysics.
I help setup ad placement TVs for resort style businesses.
Studied theoretical astrophysics and astro xenobiology as a double advanced major...
My boss used to brag he managed to get the astronaut in his team so, I am useful for facts and puzzles.
God I hate my existence.
I'm honestly here wondering if this is some guerilla marketing for Stitch Fix or if there's some more story to this.
Oh, no. They're fast fashion, right? That can't be great for the environment.
Article is here, kinda interesting in a depressing sort of way: https://archive.is/E0NWk
Thanks for sharing.
If that's not an alarm that screams for science funding, I don't know what is.
Don't forget the super fun B2B market where one business overcharges another business to outsource functions that really should be done in-house so then businesses can talk about "the cost of doing business increasing" when really it's that they have purchased too many services and those services are all at various states of enshitification
These days that's called "business model innovation"