• thequickben@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Yes. That’s at least half of the work I do on a daily basis. How else do companies in the same market compete with each other if they cannot add on to functionality and remain static? That’s a quick way to lose market share to your competition.

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      6 hours ago

      We’re at a point of effective monopoly and vastly increased costs of creating competition.

      The spigot of free money has been turned off, so most projects today need to have a planned out ROI, which is why enshitification has become such a big thing recently. Improvement for competition sake is out the door unless the incumbent is weak or a jump is needed as the existing revenue stream is collapsing.

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        6 hours ago

        What are you going on about?

        I don’t work in a space with a monopoly.

        My employer doesn’t have free money. They compete in a huge market and earn money while doing so.

        Not every company has the business model you described. The world would not run if that was the case.

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          6 hours ago

          Yeah, but a lot of the discussion has been about those companies given how well they pay and how dominant they are in the industry.