An excellent comment. It's very true - there's a deep sickness here which causes people to flee from the inherent value (relatively modest) and the longer, more tedious work of building a sustainable company around it.

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CodingJeebus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> there's a deep sickness here which causes people to flee from the inherent value (relatively modest)

Value is simply the mutual understanding that something should cost a certain amount, and the system we've built emphasizes the need for profit above all else. When a set of companies comes along with a new, impressive technology claiming that they can automate away the white collar workforce, they're trying to capture as much value as they can.

It's not a moral sickness, it's market actors behaving rationally. Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end, the entire system needs a rethink.

	▲	bluefirebrand an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> It's not a moral sickness, it's market actors behaving rationally. Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end I don't agree that "I am just a market actor behaving rationally" somehow absolves you of any moral duty I'm not an ethicist or anything but I have studied quite a lot of ethical frameworks and I've never encountered one that I think would agree with this
	▲	mcphage an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Believing that people should be willing to leave money on the table because it's the right thing to do is a dead end, the entire system needs a rethink. I didn’t expect a full throated defense of mugging and burglary on HN this morning, but here we are.