Your toaster dies the second you unbox it. Pants rip on day one. The quality of everything is trash now. This is what bigheaded people call enshittification. Companies deliberately design products to break right after the warranty. This is due to the so-called “Hunt for Infinite growth.” Steady profits ain’t enough. They need MORE, so they skimp, shrink packages, and shove everything behind subscriptions. Infinite growth is a plague, and it hurts your personal finance.
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I say it EVERY DAY now, and my family is sick of it, but they know it’s true: NOTHING works any more. Products, systems, etc., nothing works the way it’s supposed to, including customer service, which is worse than it has ever been. These days, corporations consider an AI chatbot to do ALL of their customer contact to be high quality customer service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Makers
Does the book hold up or does a new book talk about it better? I’ve been trying to slowly convince some of my wife’s friends that no, you don’t really need to buy 100 trinkets everywhere you go just because they’re there. I think I’ve at least gotten through to their nephew that a few cool things and time with friends is enough.
I work for a small (nearly big) company and we still do things with actual people. I’m fully prepared to push back as soon as that becomes an idea. They’re already leaning towards AI bullshit for data crunching, which is fine as it is, it’s helpful, but I can see the writing on the wall. I will not be words on that wall. I have faith the people I work with will do the right thing, but it’s not unshakeable.