The US is what happens if you push enshitification on a national scale for too long.
You start with a genuenly good setup. Then you reduce investment, cut corners and reduce spending as much as you can to squeeze out every possible bit of profit.
That works for a while, because you can coast along on prior investments, but at a certain point the game is over and all you are left with is a tide of shit that nobody wants anymore.
To even consider that projects carried mostly by volunteers and underpaid staff making a meager living off donations can rival the products of the world’s largest software corporations is laughable, and yet here we are.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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Guidy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well put. I was mad at first and then immediately remembered that they’re not wrong. :(