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by fileeditview 904 days ago
I will probably insult some people with this but here it comes anyways..

I think we just have too many trash products (software and non-software) which no one really needs. This is why there are massive spam/ad campaigns everywhere to convince people that they need "new trash product xy".

One of the problems being that you cannot really build wealth today by doing your job as an employee in most cases. The result is that more and more people want a piece of the "founders pie" even though they don't have any valuable product to add.

And this not only applies to founders/start-ups.. when I look around I see 95% of all products as trash. Established big corps are guilty just the same. If you bought a washing machine 20 years ago there is a good chance it is still running. Today my washing machine has AI but dies after 3 years..

Sorry for the rant.. I hope some founder has as a resolution to make actually useful and durable products.