• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.

    • Why is it limited to platforms? Can’t enshittification apply to other things like applications?
    • Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
    • The platforms dying thing isn’t what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They’re not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.

    I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      There is no need to coin a new term, when “rent seeking” has done just fine for hundreds of years now.

      This is not a new concept.