I say it so often, that it has become a mantra: Nothing works any more.
We need a long campaign of trust-busting to fix all this shit.
I can’t help but think that shitting all over our trading partners is a good way to get spit on your burger.
Companies being too big is not a problem that is confined by political borders.
Resources and energy to produce things got more expensive. Income of the consumers didn’t go up. So how do you keep earnings high? Lower the quality.
Don’t forget that they ALSO raised prices. By much more than their costs temporarily rose to. And then never lowered them again.
I dont think it got more expensive to make. They just want to squeeze every penny. Because shareholders.
CEOs get a lot of hate for this kind of thing, but the shareholders get away with it. When are people gonna blame them?
We didn’t think it was our imagination.
Natural consequence of capitalism.
Fucking Uniqlo, they used to have the best basics. All my underwear came from them. Of the pack I bought 8 years ago I still have undies, the more recently bought ones all started getting holes within a year.
The telos of Capitalism is to produce goods for cheaper and cheaper prices, which eventually leads to poor quality and disposable “goods”.
…or at that point, “bads”.
Bads and disservices.
Eating is a chore for me and I thought it was because of depression. Turns out the food just tastes like crap because it is crap. Score!
I’ve actually noticed quality of textiles on IRL shelves going back up since COVID. If you’re buying from Temu or something, then yes, it will be cheap. In a direct counterexample, cars get more and more luxury and huge all the time.
Food is a thing, and it’s basically because you can’t taste it in the store, so it’s bred more for looks.
Cars get more expensive and techy, but from what I’ve seen the plastic-y interiors are nowhere near as sturdy as they once were.
As a modern car hater, interiors are the one thing that have gotten significantly better as long as you exclude replacing physical buttons with touch screens. All the touch points in modern cars feel so much nicer and more premium than a car 20 years ago. Take a look through Google images of economy car interiors from the 2000s and the amount of gray plastic is shocking. My 1992 Jaguar has a debatebly worse interior than a modern Kia.
I’m sure some still do, but didn’t some plastic in older cars just melt in the sun? lol
quality of textiles on IRL shelves going back up
Because the people buying in a physical store, care more about quality than the regular online shopper does.
Sure there’s also good brands online, but most big ones are also seeing tremendous declines in recent years
Food is, indeed, a thing.
Big if true
Forget that part, homie is over here breeding food….
Do not the food
And yet The Thing is not food
It could be if you are brave enough
“Marjorie, is life even worth living? This food tastes like ash in my mouth.” “Oh Roger, darling. Wait, is that the new McAsh?”
Man if even mainstream news like the guardian are talking about it you know it’s gotten awful.
A very sad topic but the website kept a really high quality!
Very annoying they giving Cory Doctorow credit for the term Enshitification for a book he made in 2022 for a term that was around years before he “made” the term.
He is quite open about the fact that he didn’t invent the term
Edit: just looked it up in my copy of the book, and there he says he coined it. But I’m pretty sure he posted somwhere that it’s possible that he grabbed it up somewhere. otoh, multiple people coming up with a word happens all the time
I’m just amazed people don’t say “crapitalism”.
Ohhh, that’s a good one!
To give Cory credit, he was also one of the first people to use it in online forums, years earlier.
we already know
In other news, water is wet.
