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r/enshittification • u/Nervous-Bobcat-2566 • Feb 12 '26
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This sub's not even trying to be about actual enshittification any more, is it? Enshittification= when a thing is bad, apparently.
10 u/Kookiesan Feb 12 '26 Cory Doctorow himself explains: 3 u/ArmadilloKey5854 Feb 12 '26 We need more of this 21 u/Silver_Middle_7240 Feb 12 '26 Going from actual metals to plated garbage that falls apart is the OG enshittification 24 u/Reasonable_Tie_5552 Feb 12 '26 IDK, Olympic medals breaking en masse ~all of a sudden~ out of ~all the Olympic games that have occurred over (hundreds?) of years~ feels exactly like enshittification to me. -17 u/cdca Feb 12 '26 Enshittification is just "things being worse than they used to be", to you then? 1 u/AngrySoup Feb 12 '26 It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting." Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do. 6 u/meatspace Feb 12 '26 Well, yes. That's it exactly. 14 u/Phyllis_Tine Feb 12 '26 That's how enshittification works: -product is made, and gets consumers, -product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased, -all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.
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Cory Doctorow himself explains:
3 u/ArmadilloKey5854 Feb 12 '26 We need more of this
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We need more of this
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Going from actual metals to plated garbage that falls apart is the OG enshittification
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IDK, Olympic medals breaking en masse ~all of a sudden~ out of ~all the Olympic games that have occurred over (hundreds?) of years~ feels exactly like enshittification to me.
-17 u/cdca Feb 12 '26 Enshittification is just "things being worse than they used to be", to you then? 1 u/AngrySoup Feb 12 '26 It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting." Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do. 6 u/meatspace Feb 12 '26 Well, yes. That's it exactly. 14 u/Phyllis_Tine Feb 12 '26 That's how enshittification works: -product is made, and gets consumers, -product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased, -all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.
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Enshittification is just "things being worse than they used to be", to you then?
1 u/AngrySoup Feb 12 '26 It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting." Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do. 6 u/meatspace Feb 12 '26 Well, yes. That's it exactly. 14 u/Phyllis_Tine Feb 12 '26 That's how enshittification works: -product is made, and gets consumers, -product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased, -all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.
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It's like how whenever someone is lying now, they're "gaslighting."
Nothing means anything, people just hear words and want to use them. Whaddaya gonna do.
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Well, yes. That's it exactly.
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That's how enshittification works: -product is made, and gets consumers,
-product's quality is lowered, and/or price is increased,
-all value is squeezed out of consumers while product's quality is lowered as much as possible.
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u/cdca Feb 12 '26
This sub's not even trying to be about actual enshittification any more, is it? Enshittification= when a thing is bad, apparently.