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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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Cant imagine making 30 k a year and having to pay even 1600 in taxes. This is saying it will increase that much.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Is this for individuals or households?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

If everyone collectively stopped paying taxes, this problem gets fixed pretty easily. As it is, I have no plans to pay any more into the Dipshit in Chief fund from this moment forward.

America will get my money when America can show that it can be responsible with it.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where exactly is the dividing line between tax break and tax increase? Not at all clear from the diagram

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