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Seriously though, the term Exit in businesses is one of the most horrifying parts of modern capitalism.

You don't build a business to be a good business, you build a business to run until you find a way to squeeze all the money out as raw cash.

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Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC
Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC
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Yeah I think this really sums up the game - people can talk about businesses delivering value to the consumer but that's not actually what they're for, and in the highly-financialized environment we now live in, when consumer value happens it's basically incidental lol
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Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC
Tim Ellis (he/him) DJDynamicNC
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Yep yep!

And since it's now at least tangentially related, I never miss an opportunity to share this article (which you may have read already) by Charlie Stross on companies as alien entities; one of my fave pieces of all time. So here ya go: antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
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so cool! charlie could have even cited
https:/www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular
in the odd chance of having come across it ;-)
(you might enjoy it too :-)
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