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  • Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?

    I think that’s the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don’t care about the product. They just want their portfolio’s value to go up.

    The leadership doesn’t care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they’re golden.

    The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn’t personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don’t have any power.

    So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don’t have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.














  • Yeah, that would help. There’s also the smaller risk of “I was going to click on something else, and this new window popped in under the mouse”

    I think some applications also don’t accept input for the first couple seconds to prevent this. I vaguely remember something that had the dialogue boxes count down from 5 before you could click or keyboard-interact them.

    Feels like the kind of problem with a lot of edge cases, but even catching 70% of the problems would be a big improvement