Burning Money On A Bloated Ship
It’s not just the fabled metaverse, it’s often day to day corporate culture.
Very few days go by in the real world outside the office window, beyond your home office blinds, or on the other side of your monitor when some corporate institution or other isn’t found to be burning huge piles of cash on some bizarre vanity project or borderline sociopathic social media exercise.
Whether it’s yet another tiresome stab at a version of a fundamentally unwanted metaverse, repeated attempts at introducing privacy destroying camera nerd goggles, or just yet more glitzy chatbots built around the usual API keys — the news sites, blogs, and podcasts¹ are awash with this sort of filler pretty much every single day.
However, what is not widely known is the simply astonishing amount of cash burnt on a daily basis within the organisations that populate the Grand Game of software engineering.
Of course, as any progressive software engineer will already attest to, it’s most definitely not burnt on anything even remotely related to making their work lives happier and less stressful, increasing their productivity, or making them not want to leave at the earliest opportunity.
The budget for that, as we all know, is so close to zero that it’s pretty much the budgetary numerical equivalent of vapourware.
