We’re living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions

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  • Loren Kohnfelder@infosec.exchange
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    10 months ago

    @[email protected] Great riff on the principles of the word of the year. I think there is one more important countervailing force to add to the four you describe: customers leaving, not just to the competition but just saying “No”. While we may be stuck for the essentials of life, large swathes of these markets nobody really needs in the first place, much of it just entertainment in some form or other. I think we the consumers can send the message clearly in the more optional markets and it will reverberate out from there. It does take collective action, but in many cases single digit percentages may be plenty to move the needle loud and clear. All we need to do is stop holding our noses and sticking with them.