Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.

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      2 years ago

      That’s not what’s happening.

      Now it’s just ‘open the market for VCs to suck the good out of everything they can’

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        I have verifiably never been active military or served in Nam but the first thought that came to my head was Veit Cong.

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          Before Neoliberalism, VC type investing was done with a view for the future.

          Nowadays it’s all ‘drain the value, dump the husk, move on to the next startup’.

          It’s parasitic and on a scale never before seen in human history.