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Since beginning of 2025 big corps turned to be each time more anti consumer. They feel quite comfortable. I wonder what happened for them to feel like that.
by motbus3 3mo ago
Since beginning of 2025 big corps turned to be each time more anti consumer. They feel quite comfortable. I wonder what happened for them to feel like that.
- nxm 3mo agoAny actual evidence to backup this claim?
- kmbfjr 3mo agoAre you serious? Only in the last week we have Sony deleting paid-for movies. That is pretty anti-consumer. I realize all of this is empirical, but the term enshitification just didn’t form out of thin air.
- cj 3mo agoHe's probably looking for evidence of "Since beginning of 2025". (I'm curious too) Feels like we've been on the same train for over a decade.
- replygirl 3mo agojust since 2025?
- dghlsakjg 3mo agoWell… since then but also before then.
- mr_toad 3mo agoPretty sure that phone companies have been anti-customer ever since the invention of the telephone.
- genghisjahn 3mo agoWell, they are providing a valuable service to society. How much money should they be allowed to profit for providing this service?
- hansvm 3mo agoPotentially lots of money, potentially none, but they should be honest about the capabilities and lifetimes of their products and not make that profit through bait-and-switch and other lies.
- bigC5560 3mo agoSounds to me like you just became aware of it in 2025. This has been happening for forever. Keeping with the electronics example, the Phoebus cartel was lowering the lifespan of lightbulbs in the 1920s. The US government seemed to be stricter on it at that time (I mean in the 1920s), but billions of dollars in lobbying will change that over time.
- diego_moita 3mo ago> Since beginning of 2025 I suggest you to study the birth of consumer protection laws on the beginning of the 20th century, such as the birth of the FTC in 1914. It was a time when milk and beer were routinely adulterated, most meat was contaminated and all sorts of cartels did price fixing [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_of_1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_o...
- karavelov 3mo agoSo what happened to FTC in 2025 that it’s not doing anymore consumer protection?
- diego_moita 3mo agoHmm, could it possible be a change in government's policies, more friendly towards corporations? Nah, I am probably inventing conspiracy theories... /s
- tyre 3mo agoReminds me of a recent tweet: > this has been talked about extensively you're just 21 This isn't new behavior. Not by years, but decades.