There's even more money to be made selling a false promise of infinite growth, dumping your bags, and riding off into the sunset.
replyIt hurts so much that our system makes that concept as impossible at scale as landing a ship on Venus with 10,000 people and starting a space colony complete with all the amenities of home.
replyYours is a pretty normal idea for nearly any business before 100 years ago, plus still the way all small businesses with 1 owner generally work (they call it a “Lifestyle business” today). But any public company that just said “Yeah we basically just print $400 million in profit every year, and have no plans to grow that, nor to change anything besides doing maintenance” gets the kind of treatment Southwest just did: taken over by the enshittification engineers and destroyed. Everything must have infinite growth!!
I think it's going to take a act of Congress to make this happen. We could literally legislate our way out of enshitification but where's the huge amount of money in that?
replySome forms of enshitification already feel a lot like dumping to me. I wonder why existing consumer protection laws don’t cover it already in some cases.
replyUber is a frigging service for calling a taxi, how much "R&D" does a mobile app connected to a database need?
replyBrainstorming new fees to add on to their services that the drivers don’t get a cut of takes up a few billion a year I would imagine.
replyThey spent billions and billions on trying to make self-driving a thing.
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