It’s the heart of convincing people to work hard for very little. If I were the most gruesome capitalist ever, I’d be a socialist. The TikTok dances are nice, though.
most doctors don't participate in clinical trials, they just do what they are told to do by protocols.
(of course most startups fail, and they do whatever is hype at the time.)
Startups aren’t particularly human in average, neither in their goals nor internally.
It’s just that, at the beginning of a new industry, all the low hanging fruits like “Register everyone in a big directory with photos”, “Make a video app where you can learn things” seem like advancing humanity, because it’s a leap forward. But they’re no better than in a mature industry, doing proper business.
A doctor, a nurse talking with a dying person is advancing humanity. You, noticing a depressed man in the office; a kid talking to the bullied kid in class, that’s advancing humanity.
No, Jira isn’t advancing humanity, no more than Carrefour negotiating rebates on vegetables against farmers.
And ... selling weapons might be positive might be negative. Selling weapons to defend against Russia might be positive right now. Selling weapons to dumbass US civilians who then can't keep it safe seems negative.
How is talking to anyone dying actually advancing humanity? Hitting the brakes on the cult of meaningless clinging to life in hospitals would be some advance. Allowing people to say goodbye while they still can...
Jira definitely is from hell, but when it was not this cruel cloud-crazy incumbent it was doing some things better than the alternatives back then.
I'm not saying startups are good because they are small/new/risk-taking, but I'm trying to say that incumbents are usually bad because they have more monopolistic tendencies (than the startups that want of course also usually want to eat the market).
Both models match to some extend (i.e. potential to make life hell for everyone), when all productive capital is allocated to a single company.
Make the system shitty so that there is a justification to privatize. AB is just the most balls-out about it since Danielle Smith is basically a female Bill O'Reilly who got elected to Premier (aka Governor for the USA-ians).
Boomers dying earlier than their parents, and stressing the system in large numbers, are also stretching these systems. Even if a NDP-led-double-down-on-healthcare approach there would be serious issues due to demographics.
My province in Canada has treated healthcare workers like absolute shit and now the leaders and the people who voted for them are genuinely shocked that those healthcare workers are leaving the industry or finding jobs elsewhere.
It's absolutely insane because you need these people to train the next generation of healthcare workers which isn't going to happen now because they're leaving.