Also don’t go outside or let the Google car drive by your house or have email or throw documents in the trash

The myth of capitalism is that it improves things for the consumer. It’s very obvious that it only improves, at best, the next quarter’s returns for the investor. Once that husk of a company stops “line going up,” the money goes elsewhere and we repeat.

If the line can’t go up through creation it’ll go up through destruction.

I’d argue that’s true in some cases, for example web apps might work well enough on modern device hardware but they’ll never meet the performance of even mid-tier native apps

It’s less about individual developers writing bad code and more about whole inefficient frameworks gaining popularity because of ease of use or deployment