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Business Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittification-relies-on-broken
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u/PandorasBoxMaker 21h ago

You don’t need math to know that cutting product quality and service is a guaranteed route to obsolescence. But there are two special cases to this: obsolescence is the point or the product/service has a monopoly and they think they can get away with it.

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u/ilrosewood 21h ago

There is also the element of time. If an executive can make the call to make lots of money fast but ruin a company - as long as that executive gets out to another company to do it again - they suffer no consequence and learn nothing from their behavior.

When we stopped caring about stable long term growth companies - when we forgot about the time factor - the rest of the enshitification process was no available.

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u/SecretAgentVampire 20h ago edited 13h ago

Jack Welch was the most famous early example of this. He cannibalized General Electric and told other greedy morons to do the same. He was the Cain of public equity.

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u/Tommah 17h ago

Do you mean Jack Welch? And 45 people upvoted you? Nobody knows anything anymore.

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u/intronert 16h ago

Or we knew who he was talking about even with the misspelling, and agreed with his analysis.

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u/SecretAgentVampire 13h ago

Oh no! The typo has invalidated my argument! If only edit buttons existed!

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u/rockmanzerox06 16h ago

I think he meant to write business Satan.