Do you think cavemen ever got humiliated and had the kms urge? Like “Grug so embarrassed, Grug jump into tar pit” and then Glarg is like “Noooo everyone forget soon” and Grug is like “Grug going to do it for real”
Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.
Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!
Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn’t make more than last year!
Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you’re profitable!
Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn’t make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!
If you’re not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!
one of the funniest things about becoming an adult is realizing that adults were not being fun-killers when they looked at your favorite snack and went “eugh, too much sugar for me.” Your body genuinely just stops being able to process sugary shit as well and it starts tasting super gross and making you feel like you have to puke after a couple of bites. it does kind of suck but the tradeoff is you get more sensitive to complex tastes so all the fancy desserts that never really made any sense to you suddenly start becoming really appealing.
“why would you spend money at a restaurant for a dessert that isn’t a quadruple chocolate cookie cake with ice cream on top?” is a question child me would ask. and the answer is that every dessert you eat from the moment you turn 26 onward will be you chasing the same high as being an 11 year old told they can eat as much candy as they want on halloween night.
We are currently living in an era where tech moguls are realizing there is no more long-term perpetually growing profit in information technology because all the niche markets with any real demand have been filled. And this horrifies them so they’re going to keep rinsing and recycling old tired schemes as many times as they can to wring the last dregs of money out of the system until the whole thing collapses in on itself. I just don’t have the energy anymore to join the pack of rats racing back and forth from one sinking ship to another.
Crypto will fail. AI will fail. Dropshipping will fail. Influencer partnerships will fail. Selling user info will fail. Ultimately aggregated social media will fail. It’s all going to suck really bad for a while but I just can’t find the energy to fret about where I’m going to make my “”“new home”“” because it’s all the same out of touch people making the same mistakes at different speeds. I’m gonna stick around in the only place where I understand the mechanics and the culture and already have a decent community built up and when that ship goes under I’ll make myself a gay little personal website with a comment box and you can all come find me and we’ll figure it out from there.
people who are afraid of snakes are fuckin’ WILD, like dude, just carefully step over these fat babies’ sausage bodies and gently move the burmese python chillin’ against the door, then you become unfathomably rich. i would do this for $10. i would do this for FREE.
