To contribute to the above: note that there are better versions of the items on your list, but they cost logarithmically more money for relative to the improvements.
Music: meeting a famous bandmember in person is even better than playing them on spotify
Art: Having the actual, tangible piece in your dwelling is still better than looking at it on a monitor (though the game is narrowing)
Writings: There still is a market for commercial fiction that is at least better edited than the typical free fanfic.
Software: Custom software specific to your application is still better than the free stuff. (well, usually, if you don’t get ripped off. Amazon’s internal software is obviously better than anything a similar business can get, but it’s exotically expensive)
Education: This is horrifically untrue. The issue is the general facts are free but the specific high value knowledge very often requires an opportunity cost that can be terribly expensive, and the credentials are expensive. I can read all day articles online, but a high reputation university to prove I know it to potential employers runs from $8k (OMSCS) to several hundred k (masters at a private school).
And as it turns out, the education system is just the start. The really valuable knowledge comes from specific practical experience that comes at a cost. A good surgeon has made some mistakes in training on real living humans. A good aerospace engineer has been part of building several real rockets or airplanes. A good embedded engineer has actually built a high performance system and gotten it to work. They used to say a good general in ww1 came at the cost of losing thousands of men. And so on.
Note that this is a place where neural implants or AI or life extension would help immensely because you wouldn’t, as a civilization, have to pay these costs over and over with each new short-lived human.
Nature: the thing is, the really great nature is far away and, well, way more awesome. The woods of backwoods kentucky are pretty but Yellowstone or islands in the pacific or new zealand, etc, are an entirely different level.
Sports: a general instance of the music case
Movies, live standup comedy: a general instance of the music case
Philosophy: I don’t know how quantify ‘goodness’ here.
Amazon’s internal software is obviously better than anything a similar business can get, but it’s exotically expensive
Amazon is a quite old company and has plenty of horrible internal legacy software. In general internal software is often worse then the kind of software people pay for from external vendors in many dimensions such as useability.
Even it’s customer facing software is often horrible. A task that you could think would matter like enterering banking details (IBAN numbers) is not implemented in a way that gives the user instead feedback.
Amazon obviously has some software that’s very good but it also has large parts that aren’t really in the interest of any individual team within the company to bring to high quality.
These days I get very annoyed at Facebook as well because I often get one spam message per day which does manage to show up in my message history and takes 8 clicks to mark as spam and delete.
Facebook seems to be historically amazing at putting every spam message directly in my inbox while putting request from people I don’t know like journalists where I actually care about the request behind not in my inbox.
Yeah, ux is almost always ignored for internal software because you have a captive audience. If some peon hates the latest version of the warehouse app, it’s not like they can download a competitor’s app instead.
To contribute to the above: note that there are better versions of the items on your list, but they cost logarithmically more money for relative to the improvements.
Music: meeting a famous bandmember in person is even better than playing them on spotify
Art: Having the actual, tangible piece in your dwelling is still better than looking at it on a monitor (though the game is narrowing)
Writings: There still is a market for commercial fiction that is at least better edited than the typical free fanfic.
Software: Custom software specific to your application is still better than the free stuff. (well, usually, if you don’t get ripped off. Amazon’s internal software is obviously better than anything a similar business can get, but it’s exotically expensive)
Education: This is horrifically untrue. The issue is the general facts are free but the specific high value knowledge very often requires an opportunity cost that can be terribly expensive, and the credentials are expensive. I can read all day articles online, but a high reputation university to prove I know it to potential employers runs from $8k (OMSCS) to several hundred k (masters at a private school).
And as it turns out, the education system is just the start. The really valuable knowledge comes from specific practical experience that comes at a cost. A good surgeon has made some mistakes in training on real living humans. A good aerospace engineer has been part of building several real rockets or airplanes. A good embedded engineer has actually built a high performance system and gotten it to work. They used to say a good general in ww1 came at the cost of losing thousands of men. And so on.
Note that this is a place where neural implants or AI or life extension would help immensely because you wouldn’t, as a civilization, have to pay these costs over and over with each new short-lived human.
Nature: the thing is, the really great nature is far away and, well, way more awesome. The woods of backwoods kentucky are pretty but Yellowstone or islands in the pacific or new zealand, etc, are an entirely different level.
Sports: a general instance of the music case
Movies, live standup comedy: a general instance of the music case
Philosophy: I don’t know how quantify ‘goodness’ here.
Amazon is a quite old company and has plenty of horrible internal legacy software. In general internal software is often worse then the kind of software people pay for from external vendors in many dimensions such as useability.
Even it’s customer facing software is often horrible. A task that you could think would matter like enterering banking details (IBAN numbers) is not implemented in a way that gives the user instead feedback.
Amazon obviously has some software that’s very good but it also has large parts that aren’t really in the interest of any individual team within the company to bring to high quality.
These days I get very annoyed at Facebook as well because I often get one spam message per day which does manage to show up in my message history and takes 8 clicks to mark as spam and delete.
Facebook seems to be historically amazing at putting every spam message directly in my inbox while putting request from people I don’t know like journalists where I actually care about the request behind not in my inbox.
Yeah, ux is almost always ignored for internal software because you have a captive audience. If some peon hates the latest version of the warehouse app, it’s not like they can download a competitor’s app instead.