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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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Re: Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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I think Gabe is an example of how you can stop at absurdly rich and still make your customers happy. The enshittification is only necessary to go beyond absurdly rich.

He's somewhere in the top 300 wealthiest people in the world; forget one-percenter, that's something like top 0.00001%. He definitely has done a lot of nice things for gaming and I hope he continues to do so for the rest of his days but let's not pretend he's not beyond absurdly rich.

I think there’s two separate things here that you seem to be conflating - absurdly rich and unethical. I’d argue Newell is mostly the former; though many or most billionaires align on both those metrics.

Re: Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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post #100

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Gabe Newell has an $11bn net worth so he hasn't exactly been not squeezing.

Is Coca Cola squeezing me, too?

Yes? Read about their water rights lobbying and lobbying against plastic recycling regulations. Our descendents have to deal with Coca Cola’s externalities. You can’t see these second order effects immediately, which is understandable, but coca cola is massively extractive.

Re: Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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post #97

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Just calling it bad does not include the intent of improving it. Verschlimmbesserung does.

Why do you change something if not to make it better, though? Trying to improve things is implicit.

The point of Verschlimmbesserung is to show your good intentions to improve something failed.

Improvement = Verbesserung

Worsening = Verschlimmerung

Worsening because you tried to improve = Verschlimmbesserung

Ask your local carpenter or plumber how many of their jobs have to do with people trying to fix a damage and make it worse

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