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jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

All companies enshittify themselves eventually,

This isn’t a foregone conclusion, just a number of things that are increasingly likely:

There’s a moderately successful, but also reasonably modest company that went about 50 years without getting “enshitified”. The founder was passionate about it, kept the company private, and held in until his 80s when he finally decided he really couldn’t do it anymore. Then they went public and immediately the layoffs, price hikes, and cloudification commenced, as the flood gate of enshitification opened on his retirement.

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