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This week on my #podcast, I read #Twiddler, a recent @Medium column in which I delve more deeply into #enshittification, and how it is a pathology of digital platforms, distinct from the rent-seeking of the analog world that preceded it:
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doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9… 1/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/kno… 2/
Enshittification, you'll recall, is the lifecycle of the online platform: first, the platform allocates #surpluses to end-users; then, once users are locked in, those surpluses are taken away and given to business-customers. 3/
1)Policy Is Not Policy
Changing taxation, for example, is not a policy that alters the name of our economic game, it merely manipulates the remuneration of the current game. And a policy that changes undesirable consequences is not equal to a policy that changes cause.
Changing taxation, for example, is not a policy that alters the name of our economic game, it merely manipulates the remuneration of the current game. And a policy that changes undesirable consequences is not equal to a policy that changes cause.
2) prolific adjustments to the dials at the bottom of our economic food chain are merely band-aids, not remedies to prevent the undesirable consequences from occurring in the first place. An ounce of prevention in a foundational policy is worth a pound of cure. @realmethod41
3) Indeed, after having dissected the quality of the operating systems of humanity that communicate our ingrained beliefs, I suggest we bow down in embarrassment to what playground, described above, we currently leave to our children.
