Comment on No need to boil the ocean

• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Imagine your essential services are all run for profit, by entities with the goal of maximizing profits and minimizing service.

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I live in the USA. You’re describing life in the USA.

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re living during a time when literally the largest collaboration of human effort to ever exist was free, but is inexorably being enshittified purely by profit motive, and you’re advocating for more things to be driven by profit motive.

  The test is easy, if it’s trivial to contrive a situation where a profit driven design leads to the opposite of the required situation, then that service shouldn’t be profit driven

  For profit fire fighters! Response times go up because there are a lot of firefighters now! Your house burns because you have bad credit or couldn’t pay your bill. A firefighter may have set that fire to drive more business. conclusion: Fire fighting should NOT be profit driven.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For profit fire fighters! Response times go up because there are a lot of firefighters now! Your house burns because you have bad credit or couldn’t pay your bill. A firefighter may have set that fire to drive more business. conclusion: Fire fighting should NOT be profit driven.

    No like the fire brigade in Discworld: If you don’t pay them, they set your house on fire!

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s how countries were formed, yes. So?

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