If you want, you can translate to Latin and call it "faecefaction". The key difference is that degradation can be a natural process, or a result of neglect, wh

If you want, you can translate to Latin and call it "faecefaction". The key difference is that degradation can be a natural process, or a result of neglect, while faecefaction is a deliberate act of turning a product into crap, while knowing that the customer will continue buying for some time, due to inertia and / or lack of alternatives.