Comment by tw04
3 months ago
But it both hasn’t always been the case and still isn’t in large swaths of the country and the world. The 5x + enshittification phenomenon is both recent and a result of PE and “activist investors”.
“We” collectively should demand better. You act as if government is some omnipresent being that makes its own decisions. If citizens start demanding the government act in their best interests by enforcing things like anti-trust laws, it will.
Lina Khan, the only anti-trust believer of note and with influence, in my lifetime, got thrown out like a bad habit.
Enshittification is shit, though one can imagine bigger scarier issues slapping us in the face and fast.