We’re living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain
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https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/13/solidarity-forever/#tech-unions
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr great piece. That quote about the French railway got me thinking. Our entire society has become enshittified.
That homeless person sleeping in a shop doorway that you pass in the morning on the way to work? Society needs that person to act as a deterrent, to keep you turning up every day to a job you hate, because if you don’t, if you stop complying and paying your rent, that will be YOU