• BillyCrystalMeth@slrpnk.net
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    16 hours ago

    Check out enshittification and the rot economy. I feel like those two terms encompass pretty much what we are seeing these days

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I’m quite aware of enshittifacation. And, though the word is new, the concept is not. It was most recently called “planned obsolescence” and I think older folks just called it “trashy new stuff” or something folksy like that. But that’s harder to apply to the amorphous entity that is the Internet and the economy that’s been built around it. Don’t fall for the doomsday cult of “it’s all just going to shit anyway so let’s only care about ourselves”. That’s how we got Baptists, Seventh Day Adventists, and Mormons (among so many others).