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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Great in theory but i can just continuously give my money away to my family my dog etc as to nwver reach said wealth cap seems extremely exploitable.
By family I'm talking taxable adults who will also be subject to wealth cap. The richest of us own too much to spread it all around.