I mean, I get it too (Gaming)

by Vortech , A Fourth Wheel, Saturday, June 27, 2026, 10:38 (1 hours, 37 minutes ago) @ Kermit

I get it, too, but I don't have his priorities. Here's the thing: you provide a service. Your customers either think it's worth what you charge or not. Your job is to make it worth it to both you. You screw it up, you fail. In a free market, you're always going to have someone come along who will try to provide greater value. In my model, you don't need Cody Miller judging other people's priorities for things to change. There will be a disruptor who provides better value. Change will come.

But that's not what the invisible hand does.

It creates a minimum viable product which gains market share, and then diminishes the product over time now that it has the scale to manipulate markets and exclude competitors. That's what it does. Always. Decade after decade, country after country. To say anything else is ahistorical.

You can try to curb it by implementing regulation and laws like antitrust. But that's substituting human judgement for the "free market". Some great things have come out of the system, but those are almost always some iconoclast's personal vision that is financed by the seedier parts of the system. So, where does this human judgement come from; who gives ideas to the iconoclast? The critic.

P.S. The Critic, by the way, is also the fountainhead of the public will that will sometimes change what is considered a minimum viable product, so what exactly are you arguing against here, anyway?