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Re:6 months ago, I left the bullshit industrial complex by mordae on Thursday June 27, 2024 @02:40AM (#40807961)
There was a period of time when to get the highest ROI you had a factory built, you hired a bunch of people and had them make and sell washing machines, fridges and vacuums.

Since everybody now has a washing machine, fridge and vacuum, the profits fell and the manufacturing just barely sustains itself.

Since the founders / owners / shareholders extracted all excess profits, the companies became brittle in crises, causing them to buy each other until there is just about 1 per continent, possibly 1 in the whole world.

The only way to jack up prices until then, barred burying the whole planet under a pile of planned obsolescence electronics garbage, is to invent new ways to introduce scarcity. Like gating certain features behind a subscription fee.

And temporarily also to lay off as many people as possible, replacing them with automation.

Please elucidate how do you envision next win-win capitalism-based boom. Time savings to everyone have been driving the last one. The only area with a low-hanging time-saving fruit remaining is time on job. Which is exactly the time capitalism seeks to maximize for workers.

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