@TNT261
Didn't you ever learn to paragraph properly? The enter key exists for a reason, and it isn't just submitting things.
Anyway, I'm not wrong. I would even say
obviously not wrong, and that it is laughably stupid to claim otherwise.
But I guess you fucked up because you completely missed the point in the first place. What was all that obsessing over dinner with the boss and shaking their hand about? Do you have a crush on your boss or something? I'm guessing you just completely misunderstood what I was saying, somehow.
As I said, concern for individual needs diminishes with the size of any group of people.
That is to say as the proportional representation of individuals decreases, the more they will simply be pigeonholed into rough collective categories. It is an absolute inevitability.
That means that whatever the group got together in the first place for, their priorities will shift with increasing numbers to something more abstract and generally less compatible with any given individual.
With companies in the capitalist sense, they might initially start out of the creator's interest in a topic, or a desire to help with something, or do something right that others aren't doing... BUT the more successful they get, the more the focus will simply shift towards the company's own survival. It shifts away from "what do people need?" to "how can we make more profit regardless of what we need to sacrifice?"... Employees become regarded as disposable labour while clients become regarded as walking moneybags to be drained.
Even the concept of PR plays into that exactly. The point isn't to be good for people, but to pretend to be good for people so as not to hurt profits. Bread & Circuses, so to speak. A company that was still focused on serving people rather than exploiting them wouldn't NEED PR, as that would take care of itself.
If you want examples, take a look at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Electronic Arts. Plenty of others too. Started small, got big, went from being a trusted company to a bunch of tyrannical arseholes.
Microsoft scrapped all their personal versions of Windows for a "service model" that allows them to keep greater personal control over everything users do. Lots of personal customisation ability was scrapped in favour of spyware, forced updates, and other resource-hogging crap that only exists for Microsoft's sake and not the user's... on something they ostensibly already purchased. Heck, they were already hated before that, but it didn't really sink in with me until Windows 10. But if one plays games on a computer at this point, other operating systems simply aren't as compatible.
Google used to be a good search Engine. But now if you aren't searching for what they WANT you to find, you won't find it. All searches are normalised so if you want to try and find something vague that sounds a bit like something else, there will be no relevant search results whatsoever, and only a stream of false positives. And adverts litter absolutely everything trying to forcibly sell you things you don't need nor want, spamming up your entire online experience in the hopes of parting you with your cash.
Facebook. Where to even start? Every single Facebook update has made it worse. The chronological order of posts which made tracking them important was scrapped in favour of showing what Facebook wants people to see in order of popularity. Adverts appeared and gradually ran rampant. Meatspace names became mandatory and enforced. Tagging became automatic. The design of everything became gradually more and more childish over time. And what started as purely a social networking tool became a collection tool for personal data to sell it for profit. A meat-market where humans were the product, essentially. And that is without even starting on the enforced political agenda.
As for Electronic Arts, I don't even remember a time when they weren't complete scum. I only learnt they might not have been from a few videos a couple of years back. Apparently they made good games themselves once. But by the time I was aware of them, they were already buying out smaller 3rd party developers and making them just pump out endless cash-cow franchise products until they ceased to be useful any more. Remember the days when Bioware made games that weren't Mass Effect or Dragon Age? Heck, remember a time when Bioware were still making games on a semi regular basis? EA ruined that. Hard. They only recently consented to put their games on Steam, but it turns out even that is a ruse as it STILL installs a form of Origin on the computer to function. More back-doors into forcing their own way on people. Just enforcing mediocrity and destroying potential for the sake of personally hogging all the money they can.
It is simply an inevitability that success will turn companies into complete scum. And sure, they will keep trying to pretend they aren't as being actively hated is bad for profit, but they will only do as much as is necessary to fool the idiots out there and part them from their money.