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354 points qingcharles | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
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K0balt ◴[21 Apr 25 04:58 UTC] No.43748607[source]▶
Enshitification at its best. This is all part of the inexorable current sweeping us along to the post capitalist society, where corporations no longer sell anything but rather rent or sell access to their things. We’re already there with phones, most consumer computers, farming equipment, cars, and gradually, more and more consumer goods.

With pervasive automation, we are accelerating towards a future where money is meaningless, but not in a nice humanistic star-trek kind of way… more in a dystopian, no need to pay wages to anyone because automation, so we just need land, natural resources, and energy kind of way.

It’s grey goo, on a macro scale so you have to get into space to see it for what it is.

The current pushes us towards a time, soon, when power is the only currency that matters, and justice is reduced to the will of the stronger.

If we want to have something better than trying to compete for resources as squishy humans alongside technofacist enclaves where humans are sparse and wield unprecedented power through massive robotic capabilities, we need to start making changes now.

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dzhiurgis ◴[21 Apr 25 21:11 UTC] No.43756532[source]▶
Technically not an Enshitification.

Enshitification is a decay of online platforms.

I get it, it's fun to throw such words around, but just like a nazi, it has a specific meaning.

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1. K0balt ◴[22 Apr 25 01:03 UTC] No.43758154[source]▶
I thought it meant the change of everything to pay to play… perhaps the meaning is shifting from its original purpose and is expanding to encompass the ruining of everything by corporations in the name of greed? Idk. If seen it used a lot in that context in the last 6 months. I also thought it was just online decay, but I’ve seen it used so much in a broader sense that I think, as a new word, it’s still finding its footing in the greater lexicon.