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"The Enshittocene Period"
This is the era of elaborated systems following the exit of their elaborators. To elaborate a system is first-ordered, say. Then to perpetuate an elaborated system is second-ordered. The elaborated system decays due to inadequate maintenance, or, far worse, through improvements by those who know not what they do. This is the root of #enshitification . Stick with Micah: do it right, realize that we all make mistakes, and do not expect to understand what must be going on in places where we have never been. I have been describing the natural law, but it gets even weirder when corporate profits are involved.