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> "He believes that changes to the policy environment is what has led to enshittification, not changes in technology."

This is the root cause, and as it looks, there is no cure.

Agreee. Also money. Once we go from making things because they are cool / helpful / useful / amusing to making things to personally get rich, is enshitofication inevitable?

It’s evitable, we need to make it impossible to get excessively rich from it (by capping capital accumulation through redistribution).

I think it stems from there not being enough engineers. In aggregate, companies have been able to take over the market for engineering labor and ensure that the only good-paying jobs on the job market at any given time are working for companies that want to use engineers to corner some consumer market so that they can enshittify it.

The cure is to make so much new engineering talent that this is simply impossible

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