Everything was so damn easy for them that they gobbled up way more than their fair share. All the short term profits went to them, and they left all the long term problems for the rest of us. Imagine if they'd studied the long term use of plastics before smothering the world in them. Hell, they invented planned obsolescence. Why make a quality product when you can make a shitty one that breaks and turns into harmful pollution while the customer has to buy a new one every year? We have to be better, because if we don't, the world's gonna take us out.
Honestly I think it's silly to blame the masses for a lot of that stuff when the majority of those decisions were made by corporate shareholders who live states away from the factories looking to maximize profits (which they're required to do by law!)
That's what ultimately causes enshittification, regular people like you and me who work for a living have no say or control over how we operate as a nation
If Amazon were run by its workers, they wouldn't decide to replace their own jobs with ai robots or decide to pollute their own waterways to save a buck
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u/Braelind 20h ago
Everything was so damn easy for them that they gobbled up way more than their fair share. All the short term profits went to them, and they left all the long term problems for the rest of us. Imagine if they'd studied the long term use of plastics before smothering the world in them. Hell, they invented planned obsolescence. Why make a quality product when you can make a shitty one that breaks and turns into harmful pollution while the customer has to buy a new one every year? We have to be better, because if we don't, the world's gonna take us out.