Comment by schmuckonwheels

Comment by schmuckonwheels 9 hours ago

Imagine the collective brainpower that could be used to help solve the world's ills, and instead decided, no, what we need is a camera pointed at your asshole which we feed into an AI-powered SaaS we can then sell to you for a subscription. This industry is finished.

Aeolun 7 hours ago

It’s pretty impressive that that juicero thing wasn’t the most bizarre thing they could come up with.

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mzhaase 5 hours ago

I watched a teardown of it and the truly bizarre thing was that the build quality was actually amazing. Machined out of a huge block of aluminum, really big bearings, etc.

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- kortilla 5 hours ago
  
  That was part of why it failed though. The over-engineering made it very hard to recover costs
  
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venturecruelty 7 hours ago

This is downstream from the notion that companies need to have infinite growth forever. Of course, that's not possible, so this is the end stages of that: wealth trickles up while the, well... you can guess what's trickling down.