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Enshitification is /our/ fault, not the enshitifiers (slrpnk.net)
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The whole capitalist infrastructure is designed for corporations to fully exploit profitability to the most extreme possible result. Sure, we can blame capitalism, which is a useless activity. In fact, it’s a harmful stance because blaming capitalism artificially puts solutions out of reach.

Within this capitalist system we are stuck with, can you blame the corporate enshitifiers? Again, same problem. Doing so puts the solution out of reach as corporations who work for their shareholders (not you) laugh all the way to bank.

It’s our fault. We have control and we squander it. You don’t have to solve CAPTCHA puzzles. You don’t have to switch to the clearnet every time a website blocks Tor. You don’t have to send a message to a GAFAM recipient. It’s because spineless pushovers fail to stand up for themselves and solve CAPTCHAs, tolerate cookie walls, and do whatever dance the corps force on us. We need more people to get a constitution and stop licking boots.

Corporations are doing their job (profiting). We are not doing our job. As consumers, it is OUR job to reject the garbage and ensure that we don’t make enshitification profitable.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Of course when you fail to pull the lever, the lever is guaranteed to fail.

It fails not for the reason you claim, but in situations where consumers fail to do their job. These perverse incentives you speak of come from the consumer, should the consumer fail to boycott. Do your job, pull the lever, and stop playing the fool.

It’s of course a shitty take to say don’t vote, without even having an alternative action non-voters can do that is more effective yet mutually exclusive to voting with their feet.

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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