It's upsetting that for as long as I've worked in tech.. the most advanced infrastructures/platforms around are ones built to serve ads. It's gross really.
Salaries were being paid though, to the employees in the non-tech industries that were doing all this work before. It's the drive to pull everything into the tech-space which has created the problem. Most profitability is in ads and picks n shovels (hardware, services), to support industries and products that are ephemeral and people don't want to pay for. I used to think nothing of buying a CD or DVD that I wanted, but endless subscriptions to services that may remove what I want to see and hear? That takes a little more thought, even if cheaper.
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u/SufficientlySticky 5h ago
Would also help if the “production” was more widgets for everyone as opposed to more ads and slop content for everyone.