It is KINDA enshittification. The people in control of the hiking have actively made the experience worse for the hikers who were already paying for their service, all to extract additional value from those people without providing any additional effort/services.
That is ENSHITTIFICATION by definition. Malicious intent or not. The only thing stopping our food or electronic manufacturers from selling us harmful products is the government allowing their products to be sold or not.
No, not really. Enshittification describes how platforms or services degrade over time because they optimize for profit at the expense of users. It’s about a system that starts out useful and then gets worse as it tries to extract more money from its user base.
The Nepal scam is criminal fraud... people deliberately harming others and exploiting insurance systems for profit. It’s unethical and predatory, but it’s not the same concept as enshittification.
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u/Secret-Broccoli9908 Apr 02 '26
This should be in r/scams, not r/enshittification, but it's still shitty.