Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital

(pluralistic.net)

10 points | by headalgorithm 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • jqpabc123 1 hour ago
    Enshittification is caused by greed and opportunity. Anything that can be exploited for profit will be exploited --- eventually.

    Venture capital is just an enhanced and amplified version of it.

  • Kerrick 44 minutes ago
    Cory Doctorow's clarification of enshittification as a result of collapsing constraints is worth considering. I'd never before thought of it as an application of the Theory of Constraints.

    Also, the "Capitalism v. Capitalism" mentioned--tech monopolies vs. businesses trapped on their platforms--is well-put. It's always been a part of his talks on enshittification, but few seem to hear that part.

    I'm way too unfamiliar with Bluesky/Atproto to comment, but I liked the motive he described: "why leave 20 million people at risk of enshittification..."