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What are some little things capitalism did that annoyed you personally. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I've got two off the top of my head:

First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn't been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.

Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they're so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a 'jump to recipe' button.

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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

The abundance of pointless SEO stuff...

A lot of sites like the NYT forces you to read a lot more any article just to get the gist. If the subheader teases "Five factors might influence the spread of solar power" - I groan because I know I'm going to get annoyed hunting around the article find them.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah. The lede-burying is pretty bad because that means it's something particularly shitty or unhelpful.

    Like those wealth tip articles from a young millionaire, where the actual reason they're wealthy is because their family gave it to them.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    wealth tip

    Those are the very worst.

    Headline: "How I bought a $400,000 home at 25."

    ~200 words into the article the vague comment - "With assistance from my parents..."

    ~300 words in there's another vague comment - "With my grandfather's passing - I received an inheritance."

    There's no dollar amounts and in the comments people are lambasting the site and author.

    After that the author gets pilloried on twitter for "forgetting" to mention that his influential parents got him a cushy job at The Atlantic right out of college.

    A few hours later the site quietly edits the article so at the very bottom it reads - "The assistance and inheritance amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars."

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