“I think we have to guard against the temptation to accept that history is necessarily the limit to who we are.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

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  • enshitification is based on the ease of moving profits from users to creators then from creators to shareholders in a digital service economy all the while degrading the service for the users and then the creators as the profit fulcrum.

    so enshitification might be a different thing than the reality around manufacturing items in an international environment which requires design decisions that later require revising because not all materials are available from everyone in the way a design is called for. and finding people that can assemble things while receiving a wage that they can live so that a company can make a profit requires compromises. and that is just two tiny points in not including shipping and workspaces and insurance et cetera

    it is hard, yo. in a not a one part is inconceivable hard but in a it gets complicated pretty quickly type of hard.