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by qp11 786 days ago
Have you seen any large Corps take a big hit, from daily security breaches, data leaks, ransomware, spam etc etc?

The tech can be shit, but it will get sold to Corporations because of fomo, and because Corps have Learnt they don't need high Quality products and services to survive.

Once large Corps achieve scale, they make cash primarily through Financial Engineering not Product - so seeking out and taking advantage of cross border differences in interest rates, corporate tax rates, forex, labor, real estate/rent, govt subsidies, regulations, pumping up the stock through offshore accounts etc etc. Add to that how they use their size to swallow up or obliterate smaller competition and you end up with a class of people in charge that have learnt product and service quality is secondary to their survival.

In addition to Financial Engineering, Demand Engineering (or Marketing/advertising) games are won by who ever has the largest Ad budget. And that is Large Corps.

So Creatives, Engineers, Product/Service designers or anyone who cares about Quality have to come up with tactics and strategies to counter the influence of Financial and Demand Engineering.