Minimal Viable Thinking

[Originally posted in LI.]

I need a new phrase to capture the systemic digital product safety & security dysfunction naturally occurring in capitalistic economic systems. The Industry Product Safety Resistance Playbook shows the symptoms but not the disease.

The disease is that these systems view anything that negatively impacts the bottom line as "bad" [for the company; corporate egocentricity gone awry].

So the corporation will seek to minimize investment in uncomfortable truths, like product/production related adverse impacts on ✔️people, ✔️societies, and ✔️the planet. It also seeks to minimize investment in the well-being of human laborers.

🎯It's Minimum Viable Product Safety. For digital products, it's Minimum Viable Product Safety & Security.

🎯 It's also Minimum Viable Cost of Human Labor. [AI, anyone?]

💡Hint: Maximizing those two principles in the extreme leads to (drumroll) Minimal Viable Customers. Oops.