Oh for sure, it’s my favorite word of 2023. I’ve taught everyone I know - I’ve been using it enough I’m now trying to avoid saying it directly
Overuse is how you turn a specific term into a meaningless buzzword after all - and enshittification is a wonderfully precise explanation of a nebulous process of capitalism self-cannibalizing around us, a system based on growth that ran out of profitable markets to colonize
new players still at the “don’t be evil” phase of the inevitable path to “become an amoral orphan crushing machine”.Ann I think you mean how enshitification happens. Yes: there is an official, agreed-upon word for this exact thing that keeps happening
Oh for sure, it’s my favorite word of 2023. I’ve taught everyone I know - I’ve been using it enough I’m now trying to avoid saying it directly
Overuse is how you turn a specific term into a meaningless buzzword after all - and enshittification is a wonderfully precise explanation of a nebulous process of capitalism self-cannibalizing around us, a system based on growth that ran out of profitable markets to colonize
Doctorow fan?