[sidjxnbx]

I get it, but I think there’s something deeply anti human about being ok with this (not just in software). It’s similar in sentiment to how you behave when nobody is looking - a culture and society is so much better off if people take pride in their work.

Obviously there’s nuance (I’ll take slop food for starving people over a healthy meal for a limited few if we’re forced to choose), but the perverse incentives in society start to take over if we allow ourselves to be ok with slop. Continuously chasing the bottom of the barrel makes it impossible for high quality to exist for anyone except the rich.

Put another way: if we as a society said “it is illegal to make slop food”, both the poor and the rich would have easy access to healthy food. The cost here would be born by the rich, as they profit off food production and thus would profit less to keep quality high.

[stocksinsmocks]

I’m pretty sure the USSR, Cuba, and the like never succeeded doing this sort of thing, but maybe if we hit ourselves in the head with the same hammer (and sickle) just one more time it will work?

[Ekaros]

The capitalist west seems fully happy buying slop and crap as long as it is cheap... Nearly no one demands quality anymore.

[sidjxnbx]

You don’t need communism to do this. You need a strong culture where elites care for their people. Elites willingly working to enrich their people.

Our current parasitic elites are just enriching themselves. Arguing about economic systems is pointless if the ruling class hates the common people.