What they don't want...

Correspondent from New York


Critical Thinking Dept.
When this blog started out, it was meant to be a think-tank for the worsening Delphi programming situation. The group of people behind this blog thought it would improve, but it has steadily worsened over the years.


Our blog went against many people, notably - the owners (i.e., the vendors - first-party, second-party, third-party and forth-party vendors). Many of the complaints fell on deaf ears and it was business as usual - false promises, ever-changing road-maps, increasing prices, worsening quality every year.

But.. there's a reason for this, there's a reason why Delphi training is very poor, why nobody reaches the top and why nobody ever gets smart enough to fix things. It's the same reason why things will never, ever, ever, be fixed. It will never get any better, don't look for it - be happy with what you got.


The owners of the source codes - the vendors don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners - the big wealthy vendors that control all the source codes and make all the important decisions. Forget the TeamB. The TeamB are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice (and entertain you). You don't. You have no choice. You have the owners instead. They own you. They own all the source codes and happy to license it to you at ever increasing costs and lowering quality.


We know what they want - They want more for themselves and less for everyone else.


But I'll tell you what they don't want - they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They are not interested in that. That doesn't help them. It is against their interests.


They don't want people who are smart enough to stand around the water cooler to figure out they are getting badly **** by a system that threw them out many years ago.. They don't want that. You know what they want?


They want obedient workers. Coders who are just smart enough to start Delphi, code the Apps and do the QA -- but dumb enough to accept the increasingly shittier Delphi jobs (what jobs?), the lower and reduced pay (work for less or get fired), the longer hours (or coming back on Saturday and Sunday) and the end of overtime, the reduced benefits, the vanishing pension, the end of social security...


The table is tiled, the game is rigged. Nobody seems to notice... Nobody seems to care...
That's what the vendors count on.