alt Hacker NewsYou know, it’s stuff like this making me think maybe the anti capitalists have a point.
A company makes a popular product customers like, but to satisfy the VCs the company must make a product the customers don’t like but could make the VCs more money.
Not sure this is the “invisible hand” Adam Smith had in mind.
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runarberg • yesterday at 10:14 PM
Anti-capitalist here: Our point is actually the same point as the one Anti-feudalists had. The consumer hostility observed under capitalism is simply a corollary.
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charcircuit • yesterday at 10:11 PM
In order to make more money you have to make a product customers want.
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"Invisible hand" doesn't force you to take VC funding. You can maintain (and many do) what VCs like to derisively call "lifestyle business". And GNU project somehow wasn't started in Soviet Union either. Editors of both kinds (non-VC funded business and FOSS) are widely available for you to use BTW.
The problems that Cursor is facing are directly resulted by the choices that its founders freely made previously.