In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Pretty convincing explanation of why we should hold Silicon Valley morally accountable for their shitty management. As usual, Ed could have stood to be a little more Marxist; in particular, there is a reason why enshittification and rot naturally happens to companies as they age, and it’s precisely the tendency for profits to decline over time!

Bonus sneer: it got double-secret-shadow-banned on HN; here is the submission. Cowards.

    • khalid_salad@awful.systemsEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      But even if we assume that this is the case, and even if there are a lot of people that simply don’t try [to learn new technology]…should companies really take advantage of them?

      DISGUSTING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        just you wait until you hear about the scandalous lunch date I had with my political rivals

        (we had burgers)