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The American Dialect Society chose as its word of the year “enshittification” last year .
The term was coined by Cory Doctorow to characterize declining service and products made by IT monopolies that generate armies of algorithms to bully people like storm troopers.
Everywhere you turn, it seems, civilization is facing a massive and cumulative failure of excessive complexity.
Only five brands of appliances now dominate the market the same way the Big Five ( Google , Amazon , Apple , Meta and Microsoft ) now rule the internet.
Like their digital brethren, the appliance monopolists don’t keep spare parts for longer than three to five years .
As a result of this planned obsolescence, appliances crowd our landfill cemeteries.
Complexity as a strategy becomes increasingly costly, and yields decreasing marginal benefits.
At some point in each round, as societies increasingly complexify, elites get greedy and start quarrelling and abuse commoners.
So, once enshittified, where to next? Clay Shirky , an internet maven like Doctorow, finds wisdom in the work of anthropologist Tainter .
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