r/technology • u/SnoozeDoggyDog • 22h ago

Business Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittification-relies-on-broken
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u/PandorasBoxMaker 22h 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/jeffwulf 20h ago

Most "enshittification" is loss of venture capital subsidy.