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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Continued expansion or ever-increasing profits is a definitive characteristic of the system though. Enshittification is just the latest feature it found, for software-based companies.

One could also argue that enshittification is independent to software, like diluting juice or other "innovations" that products received...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, but compare even Henry Ford, who was not exactly a socialist icon, when he said:

    There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

    ...to the 'fuck you I got mine' attitude that is utterly pervasive today. Definitely feels like something other than just the evolution of a broken system. It has changed in character as well as in scope.

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