Mastodawn

Aral Balkan Sep 26, 2023

Enshittification isn’t things that were not shit becoming shit; they were always shit, you just didn’t feel it.

Surveillance capitalism isn’t some horrible corruption of capitalism, it’s just capitalism in the age of the ubiquitous digital network.

The problem isn’t things that were good becoming bad. The problem is things that have always been bad finally negatively affecting even those with bucketloads of privilege who are now attempting to explain away why they were ok with it all before.

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@aral Mmmm nah. Enshitification is the intensification of shit in pursuits of increasing profits. Services which were shit - or even weren't shit - become more increasingly shitty to satisfy shareholder demands for returns on over-valued assets or in saturated markets.

It *might* not be inevitable under capitalism, but it certainly is under late-stage secular-stagnation capitalism where expectations for ROI>inflation persist despite >100 PE ratios.