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[–] 48 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

End of an era for just about everything. Streaming is all enshitified. The job market is shit. Democracy is falling apart. Decades of progress being undone. It's just the way it will be until people get sick of all this shit and start doing things differently and move on. All the great old companies are dead. Either turned to zombie brands or run by zombies. I remember how excited I was to buy my first Sony Trinitron, my first walkman, my Sony component stereo, first PlayStation.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    At some point Sony bought a Movie Studio in the US and a few years afterwards the company leadership started coming from their Media division instead of their Engineering division.

    This was in the early 00s.

    That was when Sony started enshittifying, with things like locking down their consumer devices (not just to block copying but also to do things like segment markets via region locking) and at one point they even shipped Music CDs with a PC Rootkit (the infamous "Sony Rootkit" scandal).

    IMHO, Sony was maybe one of the first large companies to start enshittifying.

    I've actually been boycotting Sony since then, so roughly for 2 decades now.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Technofascists running/ruining the world

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. Enshittification is the inevitable result of shareholders demanding endless growth at all costs.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I could just as well point to dumb people giving them their money as the reason. At the end it is more complicated than such a simplistic reductions.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not really, no.

    Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet.

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