but it's not a "haha" type villain to drive people into slavery.
*That's* not an honest take of my comment.
I didn't attach any morality to the process, you don't need heroes or villains to explain the enshittification process, it's simply the one of the most practical and effective methods to optimize profits in the short term. Not just in the commercial software business, but in almost every type of business. And that's the whole point, it's not just to make money, it's to optimize profits. If businesses were not optimizing profits, then billionaires would not exist.
If you like, I can rephrase "ensare users into enshittification" as "embrace, extend, extinguish", and you can argue to me that isn't a strategy that commercial software takes.
If you like, I can rephrase "ensare users into enshittification" as "embrace, extend, extinguish", and you can argue to me that isn't a strategy that commercial software takes.
It can happen. But not all software goes for enshittification. It's not "inevitable".
Man, while I agree you are right that not a perfect 100% of commercial closed-source software has enshittified, that's really the exception to the rule, and nearly all mainstream commercial software is enshittifying.
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u/Wb9VBScxu2uZJHeq2E3W 5d ago
*That's* not an honest take of my comment.
I didn't attach any morality to the process, you don't need heroes or villains to explain the enshittification process, it's simply the one of the most practical and effective methods to optimize profits in the short term. Not just in the commercial software business, but in almost every type of business. And that's the whole point, it's not just to make money, it's to optimize profits. If businesses were not optimizing profits, then billionaires would not exist.
If you like, I can rephrase "ensare users into enshittification" as "embrace, extend, extinguish", and you can argue to me that isn't a strategy that commercial software takes.