Give me some nihilistic takes on the current state of the software industry

Twas nice knowing ya profits!

This isn't just a software thing. Your statement can be accurately applied to any kind of office drone job

Software has degenerated from something that is helpful to the user to something that the user becomes unnecessarily dependent and upset from. Pay to install a Windows codec? No thanks. No customization options in the two main Desktop OSes? Awful.

interesting. why would elites become useless with progressing tech?

if illusion is so perfect, hermetic and perpetual, how can you know it's an illusion?

it's only going to get worse. i think it's going to get especially worse with regards to our healthcare system. congress will probably pass some all-encompassing bill to allow insurance companies to gather whatever data they mandate to adjust premiums on-the-fly. so i'm talking about every time you purchase a 6 pack, your premium will go up by a small amount. every time you buy soda, same thing.

same thing with auto insurance. they'll allow you to get a discount if you install an app on your phone that monitors your driving (state farm already does this, i'm actually going to switch off of them within the month). soon enough, congress will mandate it required. don't have a smartphone? you'll have to pay a hefty penalty or some shit until you do get one.

all "feuds" are cartel marketing. name the last new product that actually mattered.

in less than 2 decades we went from computers working for us, to us working for computers.

their positions are just as automateable as everyone else's. furthermore the systems of spying, control, and social manipulation can just as easily be used against them to oust them from power.
I fear there is a reason you can't clone yourself, have personal humanoid robots, and similar 'future tech' everyone assumed was coming but is now supsiciously not even talked about. Because such things would be too dangerous for an individual.

Just consider the global food supply chain for a moment. We are led to believe that we must have an over arching global community of trade in order to move resources back and forth to feed ourselves but is that really the case? If just 1/3 of the families in our country started raising chickens in their backyard, the entire poultry industry would become superfulous. The rich know this, so what should they do? They should collapse it on their own. The push for synthetic meat, processed lentils, and insect protien is a 4d chess move to sieze permanent control of one faccet of the global supply chain which would fundementally cut smaller players out and firmly entrench the existing players.

Any idiot can raise an unregulated chicken in their backyard, but can you say the same for processing large amounts of peas and beans? Can you even fathom the amount of resources required to run a safe and sanitary insect farm? What happens when a corporation succeeds in outlawing backyard gardening or small scale animal husbandry and is the only game in town? Their position becomes unshakeable. The kind of pseduo-monopolies we have seen in telecommunications and other utility corporations will soon become the norm in every other faccet of our lives. A key step in creating competition will be removed: the initial step, and then all types of industry will have its movers and shakers essentially frozen in time. So it's important to get in position before that happens, and to get as high as they are allowed to so they can save their place.

Higher level abstractions and their consequences have been a disaster for software engineering.
It started as a way to make things easier. Then it became all the next generation knew. Then they wanted to make all they knew easier. Repeat generation after generation, until very few software engineers are willing to dig down to the lowest levels to understand what anything is supposed to be.
I believe we have reached ignorance critical mass in software engineering, where we can't collectively shovel the shit faster than it's piling up. If tomorrow we put all of the energy possible towards the task, we could never be done, and it gets harder every day.

>interesting. why would elites become useless with progressing tech?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master–slave_dialectic

"The passage describes, in narrative form, the development of self-consciousness as such in an encounter between what are thereby (i.e., emerging only from this encounter) two distinct, self-conscious beings. The essence of the dialectic is the movement or motion of recognizing, in which the two self-consciousnesses are constituted in being each recognized as self-conscious by the other. This movement, inexorably taken to its extreme, takes the form of a "struggle to the death" in which one masters [beherrscht] the other, only to find that such lordship makes the very recognition he had sought impossible, since the bondsman, in this state, is not free to offer it."

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