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A Finnish photographer calls out the lies, greedflation and total disrespect from Adobe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u9HOf93WSI

In 2009, the CEO of Adobe was paid $5 million dollars :

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/adobe-ceo-pay-in-fiscal-09-totals-5-2-million-3195831.php

Today - 15 years later - the CEO of Adobe is paid $55 million dollars :

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-ceos-paid-million-20301281.php

And itโ€™s the SAME guy !! ๐Ÿ™ƒ.

For him, this is all a game. "Stupid peasants don't protest. They are dumb cows to milk. The board members are my friends. How high can my score go ? 70? 80 million?"

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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Congratulations. ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ˜€
I find it bizarre that competition is so bad that there is only one "standard" app for the graphics work Adobe is used for by professionals.

Why is the market letting this happen? Why are professionals allowing themselves to become 100% dependent on 1 proprietary solution? It's like allowing yourself to become a hostage to the companies that supply your tools.

[โ€“] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago

The market didnโ€™t let this happen. Years of bad anti-monopoly practices have seen companies like Adobe buy out their competition.

As a result the amount of money it would take to simultaneously catch up to Adobeโ€™s decades of development and compete with them at scale even with just one of their products is far outside what a lot of people are willing to invest.

The same is true for a lot of โ€œbig techโ€ right now. Imagine you wanted to start your own music streaming serviceโ€ฆ