When you try to talk about enshittification, it sounds like conspiracy theories. (I'm not crazy)
Amazon made their service worse, to force people to pay for Prime.
Nowadays, if you order from Amazon, there is a week long delay before your package is shipped. (on purpose)
I remember when orders would ship out the same day. (I remember - it was real)
YouTube didn't used to have ads. Now, ads play in the middle of videos. (it's worse than TV ever was)
The best can opener I have owned is over 40 years old. Modern ones just don't hold up as well. (The ones I bought new broke ages ago)
The bread machine my mom got for her wedding lasted 30 years. It's been replaced twice in the last 5 years. (How can you fuck this up?)
The cardboard tubes in the middle of toilet paper rolls have gotten larger. (This too?) Companies increasing the price of the product while selling you less. (REALLY?)
It sounds crazy. (it's the truth) When you talk about it, YOU sound crazy. (it's true)
Even when people believe you (do they really), all they can say is "it sucks". (it's too big) Because the problem is so big, so pervasive, what can we even DO about it???
To get the necessary laws written and passed, we need politicians, to get the politicians elected we need information campaigns, to fund campaigns we need money, and all the money is being hoarded by the people profiting from enshittification. (it sounds so fake)
So I talk about enshittification (it sounds crazy), so people don't forget that things have been made worse on purpose (it's true), even though I sound crazy. (maybe I am)
This is crazy to say because it's not a problem that politicians will fix, and it's a problem that they created in the first place. Things aren't shittier because of a grand conspiracy to make life worse. They're shitty because the average person has gotten poorer. We can afford less, so we get less.
The money supply has been debased. The worker is getting robbed by their "representatives" to expand the size and scope of government (which includes corporate/other welfare). That makes them poor. Being poor makes them prefer cheap prices more than they used to. Cheap prices come with shittier quality.
You can still get ad free viewing, it's just not free anymore because the service is no longer a startup fighting for market share at a loss. You can still get a good bread maker, but it's gonna cost about the same amount of gold as it used to, which is a fuck load more dollars than before. Technology has been making things cheaper, but inflation has been outpacing that effect dramatically and it's only getting worse. Every time someone complains about efforts to cut social security or Medicare or the military budget or even just government employment in general, they're implicitly supporting the enshittification of all things paid for with US dollars.
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