In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
“You are the victim of a con - one so pernicious that you’ve likely tuned it out despite the fact that it’s part of almost every part of your daily life… It pokes and prods and twists millions of little parts of your life, and it’s everywhere, so you have to ignore it, because complaining about it feels futile, like complaining about the weather.”
Fucking preach. I know this is about tech enshittification but there is perhaps no more succinct summary of life under capitalism.
“You are the victim of a con - one so pernicious that you’ve likely tuned it out despite the fact that it’s part of almost every part of your daily life… It pokes and prods and twists millions of little parts of your life, and it’s everywhere, so you have to ignore it, because complaining about it feels futile, like complaining about the weather.”
Fucking preach. I know this is about tech enshittification but there is perhaps no more succinct summary of life under capitalism.