Greed it’s a game. You should know this by now.
The idea that markets exist to make people happy is an illusion. They want happy customers — because you, the consumer, have a monetary value. If you don’t, you’re out of the game. Or worse, they’ll create your problems just so they can sell you a solution.
When virtualisation arrived and reduced the need for massive data centres and large teams, it wasn’t because of innovation for innovation’s sake. It was the promise of profit — for those selling the tech and those adopting it.
And somewhere in the middle, almost as a side effect, new jobs were created to maintain these systems. Those who learned how to operate them, or got the right certifications, got the jobs.
The same happened with cloud. Sure, it brought scalability and flexibility — but it also brought dependency and costs. (Maybe a topic for another day.)
And again, if you know cloud, you’ve probably got a job.
Now with AI — especially LLMs — we’re seeing machines that can deploy infrastructure, update systems, improve monitoring… and all of this with fewer people.
Greed love this. No HR headaches, no burnout, no sick days — just bigger profits. It’s like a modern version of the prosperous years between the 1500s and 1800s, right?
They say you need to adapt or die. But behind closed doors, at the upper levels of management, the real conversation is about this: How much more money can we make this quarter? And with fewer people on the payroll, the better.
Maybe one day companies will just be one person and an army of bots.
But here’s a question: If everything becomes automated… would you still want to buy from those companies?
Is Universal Basic Income a step toward liberation — or an obstacle to personal fulfilment? Doesn’t it feel like we’re heading into the final chapter of 1984?
The barrier to entering tech feels higher than ever. A DevOps engineer today is expected to know between 15 and 70 tools just to manage a single platform. More automation is needed, yes, but we humans have limits. There’s only so much we can endure.
This obsession with “more, more, more” is burning us out — and damaging our environment, and other living creatures that corporations treat as collateral damage.
What happened to working for the greater good?
To earning just enough, working just enough, and actually enjoying life?
Isn’t it scary that not long ago, 1 in 4 people were expected to get cancer — and now it’s 1 in 2?
What’s happening to us? Why the rush?
Is our future to upload ourselves into machines and digital worlds?
And if so, who’s going to pay for that?
Are we heading into a Black Mirror or Upload-style society?
Sometimes, it feels like greed has become a kind of cancer — one that’s making us all sick.
What happened to enjoying work, without needing to destroy someone else in the process?