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3 days agoYes, the ‘greed is good’ neoliberal lunatics have taken over the economics asylum and are privileging capital over labour.
However, Doctorow specifically addresses the question, ‘Isn’t enshittification just late-stage capitalism’. He talks about specific government policy decisions, made by named individuals, that have ensured that the people making the worst choices will ‘succeed’ in business at the expense of human rights. He wants us to fight for elected governments not to be pushed around by monopolies and oligarchs, and for a ‘new good internet’ where adversarial interoperability is allowed to mitigate the worst crimes of the enshittifiers.
Yes! I’ve been ‘degoogling’ for a while. Shifted email, searching, shopping etc elsewhere.
However, Cory Doctorow (‘Enshittification’) points out that even if you’re the advertiser or business customer, you’re the product. They get screwed as well. Companies that are too big to care are extracting value from everyone. The policy decisions that allowed them to get that way were made in living memory by named individuals, and can be reversed.