Anonymous #1 4w

it’s leading to rapid enshittification

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Anonymous OP 4w

Yeah it is. I honestly think when you look at technological innovation for the last decade or so (give or take), almost all of it has just been innovating more ways companies can squeeze more money and attention out of their users or more efficient ways to blow people up. Basically none of it has been good for everyday people and it all feels forced. But this is maybe an unrelated tangent

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Anonymous #1 4w

nah you’re 100% correct and you should say it. it feels like most tech innovation recently has been to the benefit of a small group of people and a net negative overall. there’s some nuance in how access to certain technologies have helped some groups but idk if that’s enough to make it a good thing on the whole

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Anonymous OP 4w

Yeah 100%. I think a lot of it has to do with how the tech landscape works these days. All these companies can get propped up on VC/private equity money for 5-10 years while they just acquire users and undercut an existing industry (e.g. what Uber has done to the taxi industry, or what Amazon did to small retail) and then look for ways to actually become profitable, which often means making your product way shittier to use and hoping you have a big enough moat that people have no other options

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Anonymous #1 4w

And it’s especially been amplified in the last few years because all these companies expanded so quickly during Covid and now have to contract because of the economic conditions/interest rates. They’re all just looking for ways to squeeze more money from people on their existing products instead of innovating new ones

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