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It’s not at all hard to not “intentionally” build asshole software, but your definitely leaving money on the table.

The nit pick arguments are just a defence to avoid honesty and introspection IMO.

Hard to say whether this is a feature or a bug of capitalism. It's like an alternate definition of enshittification though:

Once you've exploited every moral way to make money with your business, expand your scope to every "legal" way.

Note where this particular Venn diagram will fail to overlap.

I'd call it a bug. If we don't fix it, I think that our habit of creating incentives towards outcomes that nobody actually wants will eventually kill us.

“The point of a system is what it does.”

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