Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
GE Appliances is an American home appliance manufacturer based in Louisville, Kentucky. It has been majority owned by Chinese multinational home appliances company Haier since 2016. It is one of the largest appliance companies in the United States and manufactures appliances under several brands, including GE, GE Profile, Café, Monogram, Haier and Hotpoint (Americas only, European rights held by Whirlpool Corporation). The company also owns FirstBuild, a co-creation community and micro-factory on the University of Louisville’s campus in Louisville, Kentucky. Another FirstBuild location is in South Korea, and a FirstBuild location in India opened its doors in 2019.
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Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'm so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and eshitification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.
joenforcer@midwest.social 11 months ago
Enshittification exclusively defines online platforms. Stop using it for everything.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It’s a perfectly cromulent word that describes the enshittification process that happens across nearly all consumer corporate endeavours, online included.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I disagree and so do others, so you will have to face the fact it will be used in this context going forward.
No sense wasting effort fighting it.
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Enshittification is clearest in online, but even Doctorow uses the word to describe the behaviour of all companies.