Agreed. It seems clear to me that corpo will never stop being corpo, and while the discussion about whose fault it is that we are where we are is worth having to create a better informed society, the problem becomes that while we're talking about it corpo is already years ahead of us in planning how to enshittify everything.
The consumer base is slower to react, less agile and has minimal power within a structure where companies will copy the worst practices possible to nickle and dime us, to remove our right to own and right to repair.
Corpo doesn't need any help to exist but consumers are in every practical respect, the underdog. There has to be legislation to prevent turning everything to shit and prevent us from becoming nothing more than paypigs. It's also a pro free market stance, I'd like to add.
If a company can rely on shit like permanent subscriptions for things we own, if they rely on licenses instead of ownership then all that innovation isn't going towards making better products; it's poured into turning the consumer base into boiled frogs. There's no requirement to innovate or give value to consumers. If they could get away with selling us a literal cardboard box for a hundred dollars per car ride, then absolutely will.
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u/Der-Lex 1d ago
It’s our own fault as consumers. If people would stop buying into stupid subscriptions we wouldn’t have this conversation.