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Uncle Joe

(63,371 posts) Fri Oct 10, 2025, 12:19 PM Friday

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now!_to discuss his new book "Enshittification," which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as companies seek to maximize profit at the expense of their users, and it has since become shorthand for describing a pervasive sense of dropping standards across various aspects of modern life.

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"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It (Original Post) Uncle Joe Friday OP

Yes, and it's fed by de facto US dollar devaluation bucolic_frolic Friday #1

bucolic_frolic

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1. Yes, and it's fed by de facto US dollar devaluation

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Fri Oct 10, 2025, 12:27 PM

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Make the products cheaper because inputs cost more and people will only pay so much. Quality plummets unless you pay up and few companies will produce high cost products because of lower sales. Shoes, clothing, power equipment, appliances .., it seeps into everything including the internet.

Some days I'm ready to build a bunker.

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