[ezrast]

The whole point of systemic incentives is that there is no conspiracy. Nobody wants a DDOS and every large provider will have people genuinely working to avoid them. But every time there is an opportunity to allocate resources, the team that gets to frame their return on investment in terms of real dollars will always have an edge over one whose value is realized only in murky customer satisfaction projections. Over the lifetime of a company, the impact of these decisions will add up with no need for any of the individuals involved to even be aware of the dynamic, much less conspire to perpetuate it.

[cxr]

And then you have someone like the founder of Fly.io who has been explicit about that mindset at least once:

> putting work into features specifically to minimize how much people spend seems like a good way to fail a company

[Aachen]

Found the source for more context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24699292

[Aachen]

That's sound logic. In this specific case of capitalistic incentives, I haven't noticed that it's working out in a way that make one more vulnerable to DDoS when one pays for bandwidth