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FizzThis was so good. Is that an actual government agency?
HubiIt is independent but government funded:
cabbageIt’s an actual government agency, just that it’s not under political leadership. It operates as part of the state.
CherryBoring non-informative piece that tries to distance ‘enshittification’ from the natural Capitalist free market behavior. Let me enhance the whole campaign properly: Fighting for your life/profit on ‘Markets’ causes ‘Enshittification’ ! There, campaign finished..
Ironic that to share the link while maintaining privacy you have to remove the tracker part of the YouTube URL:
https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?si=zwiYcppZhG5zR6v2
becomes https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
stravanasuStrange, in my post the link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ without tracker I think. You get the shorter youtu.be form?
Sorry, this wasn’t about you specifically. I didn’t even check when I clicked it! I just meant when you share the video about enshittification (from within YouTube), it adds the tracker to the URL…
Yeah it does :( I always have to edit it manually before sharing…
I wish the Council posted also on the Fediverse. Maybe one can point them here.
The story is nearly always the same:
develop service, gain customers, numbers go up.
Gain more customers up to market saturation, numbers go up.
Market saturation is reached, or nearly reached, numbers don’t go up.
Panic.
Try to get more money: add commercials, buying rivals, reducing workforce, raising prices, reducing services, … in short: enshitification for new growth/monetary gain
Numbers go up… for a while, until users leave.
Panic again.
Make it even more shitty for short term growth.
Repeat.
Hence why STOCK is a thing:
S tart up
T rending
O pens to stocks
C ompany buys up
K rumble and enshittify
is a thing. Whenever a succesful company gets bought out by another and/or made public (IPO), it’s bound to eventually enshittify. The former owner then gets to live a life on a luxury yacht and doesn’t give a shit about the original ideals, if he had them.
The problem with stocks is that according to them, the number must always go up. But this can never happen without enshittification for the customer, for that is enhrined in stocks. Profit then will be put before people.
A diversified economy is healthy. Companies diversifying is also good, but if they grow too big and move away too much from their initial focus, the risk grows that they no longer depend on your average Joe customer, who will take much less shit. They can buy up competing companies easily. And then customers are forced to buy at theirs. Result: vendor lock-in.
The answer to that is breaking up large companies. If there are fewer than a dozen competitors, and the company is not a society-owned enterprise (ie., a worker-owned, self-managed cooperative w/ a commitment to abolition of capitalism), then the company should be broken up or reformed.
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I hate these made up terms that just confuse reality.
There’s no such thing as “ensshittificator” it’s just a capitalist without anyone making them behave.
To fix the problem, we need to stop letting the only metric be short term profit. And capitalism will never do that on its own.
youre giving too many fucks for what is a humorous video
You have a great sense of humor.
gf showed this to me last night. at first i was like, ffs what is this shitty video… OMG i was laughing just after the guy started to talk. great skit