End of an era for just about everything. Streaming is all enshitified. The job market is shit. Democracy is falling apart. Decades of progress being undone. It’s just the way it will be until people get sick of all this shit and start doing things differently and move on. All the great old companies are dead. Either turned to zombie brands or run by zombies. I remember how excited I was to buy my first Sony Trinitron, my first walkman, my Sony component stereo, first PlayStation.
At some point Sony bought a Movie Studio in the US and a few years afterwards the company leadership started coming from their Media division instead of their Engineering division.
This was in the early 00s.
That was when Sony started enshittifying, with things like locking down their consumer devices (not just to block copying but also to do things like segment markets via region locking) and at one point they even shipped Music CDs with a PC Rootkit (the infamous “Sony Rootkit” scandal).
IMHO, Sony was maybe one of the first large companies to start enshittifying.
I’ve actually been boycotting Sony since then, so roughly for 2 decades now.
You don’t even have to get high-mindedly preachy, it’s a bad take on its own terms, since it hinges on the notion that the population at large are all “dumb” and therefore deserve bad things.
Growth in this context isn’t measured by physical objects; it’s an increase in subjective value. So we’ve experienced high growth since the stone age, even though we’ve gotten almost no new stones.
While I agree in practice (and the resultant harm is real), in theory mathematical limits exist. (And this is without appealing to the idea that humans might eventually not be limited to a single planet.)
End of an era for just about everything. Streaming is all enshitified. The job market is shit. Democracy is falling apart. Decades of progress being undone. It’s just the way it will be until people get sick of all this shit and start doing things differently and move on. All the great old companies are dead. Either turned to zombie brands or run by zombies. I remember how excited I was to buy my first Sony Trinitron, my first walkman, my Sony component stereo, first PlayStation.
At some point Sony bought a Movie Studio in the US and a few years afterwards the company leadership started coming from their Media division instead of their Engineering division.
This was in the early 00s.
That was when Sony started enshittifying, with things like locking down their consumer devices (not just to block copying but also to do things like segment markets via region locking) and at one point they even shipped Music CDs with a PC Rootkit (the infamous “Sony Rootkit” scandal).
IMHO, Sony was maybe one of the first large companies to start enshittifying.
I’ve actually been boycotting Sony since then, so roughly for 2 decades now.
It’s awesome to meet another in the wild! I too have been boycotting Sony since they added malware to their products.
👍
There’s dozens of us!
Technofascists running/ruining the world
Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction. Enshittification is the inevitable result of shareholders demanding endless growth at all costs.
I could just as well point to dumb people giving them their money as the reason. At the end it is more complicated than such a simplistic reductions.
Victim blaming is never a good take.
You don’t even have to get high-mindedly preachy, it’s a bad take on its own terms, since it hinges on the notion that the population at large are all “dumb” and therefore deserve bad things.
Not really, no.
Infinite growth is impossible on a finite planet.
Growth in this context isn’t measured by physical objects; it’s an increase in subjective value. So we’ve experienced high growth since the stone age, even though we’ve gotten almost no new stones.
While I agree in practice (and the resultant harm is real), in theory mathematical limits exist. (And this is without appealing to the idea that humans might eventually not be limited to a single planet.)