Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
The degradation of digital platforms like Google Search is not accidental but a deliberate outcome of corporate incentives and decades of deregulation, leading to what Ed Zitron and Cory Doctorow describe as a 'rot economy'—a system where companies prioritize profit and growth over user b
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