The enshittification of everything! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification A few days back there was a

The enshittification of everything! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification A few days back there was a discussion on HN, The Tyranny of the Marginal User[1]. This applies to products. Products are made worse, advertised as great deals using all kinds of psychological tricks (Eg: discounting tricks in Austria discussed today in HN.), influencers, wellness peddlers, bloggers, podcasters, etc. Everyone, everywhere, everything, all the time is about buying stuff! See Temu, how it gamified shopping, bringing in game app store pressure tactics to shopping. People complain all the time about how things are costly or getting costlier or shrinkflation, but it doesn't stop anyone from buying, which leads me to think most people have too much money and have zero discretion on what to buy. A while back, people used to back away from buying stuff which they thought wasn't a great deal. But something has changed in the past few years, anybody can make any garbage and people will buy it! Think about cars: most everyone bought cars a few thousand below MSRP, but now undiscerning people have proven to manufacturers and dealers that they will buy whatever crap car is made at 50% markup. There is no selection pressure on manufacturers to make good stuff. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532973