Not just websites and online services but games, stores, restaurants, etc are they? Have you noticed significant quality reduction with nearly matching price increases?
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Welcome to capitalism
Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.
Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.
Oh you mean that unregulated, capitalism gets out of hand and it needs the government to regulate these means of production to maintain fair markets and a working economy?
Gee whiz, if only such a school of thought had a name.
When will Lemmy find a new buzz word?
So I think the term “enshittification” has been latched onto and goatse’d by the community at large to the point people are now using it to mean “things getting worse because business.”
I am pretty sure everything is getting worse because business.
That’s exactly what enshittification means. That’s the name we’ll call this stage of capitalism.
That’s NOT what enshittification was coined as, and there’s plenty of other words that already mean what you want. Stop diluting terms that we need.
See also: Terrorism, Nazi
Your local restaurant has probably raised prices slightly but nowhere near as much as their costs have actually gone up.
Many of the big restaurant group-owned places near me have raised prices and enshittified service, but my trusty local places are holding ground.
This is very true actually. I’ve always been a fan of shopping/consuming local but one thing I have noticed in the last few years is that big store products cost just about as much as local products these days, but their quality is significantly worse.
I feel like the issue here is ALL very large businesses are enshitifiing. It’s not the restaurants fault, the services they use to operate are also getting worse while charging more. Enshitification is a trickle-down economic model.
When Luby’s got rid of their little old ladies pushing the commandment/ tea cart around, i just bought the recipe book from Half Price and stopped going. If I’m going to have to get up to refill my sweet tea, I’m gonna do it in my own house… Most likely while neked…
Edit: condiment cart, fuck this keyboard is getting worse every week
Only the expensive local places in my area are still good. The cheaper ones would be too NSFL for Kitchen Nightmares
Yes.
Over time, cultural institutions (i.e., not just individual stores or game companies, but the shared processes of running such companies) evolve to perpetuate themselves as efficiently as possible. This results in an accumulation of corner-cutting techniques over time that degrades the quality of everything they produce in the process of self-perpetuation.
But “enshittification” is something more specific: as originally defined by Cory Doctorow, it’s when a company convinces its investors to pay for something that attracts users without immediate profit, with the promise of future profit extraction once a large-enough user base is captured; then destroys its user experience to extract this profit; and in the process usually loses its user base before the investors have seen the promised returns.
We will be saved because eventually we will find a way to enshit the enshittification process. In our ability to enshittify we trust.
My god, a negative times a negative is a positive - this person is a genius!
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Sure fucking seems that way, doesn’t it?
For sure. Its a race to the bottom. I was only talking about this last night with my other half. I’m a tech nerd & I yearn for the pre internet days when stuff was fun & we weren’t getting stiffed at every opportunity by “The Man”
