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I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me - ratfactor (ratfactor.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's distressing how often the track of inventors has been overtaken by the plans of hyper-capitalists.

Tesla cars were invented by ~~Elon Musk~~ Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who were then cut out by their investor to enshittify the interface.
Keurig coffee pods were invented by a pair of roommates that wanted them to become recyclable so they wouldn't cause so much waste.
Blizzard used to make fun games, and is now bought out by people that don't.

I still need to put out my big, long-form video promoting the Accountable Capitalism Act - something that could lead a large body of software devs at a big company to be present for the big-shift plans to, say, "Remove error messages from Windows!" and tell their bosses: Hell no. The same style of issue exists in many industries.