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And their follow up:

Thomas Hansen@thomashansen.bsky.social

New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

Rookie. Every good CEO knows you have to buy up or force out your competitors, and then make your product as shitty as possible.

The target audience is the investors, not the public; this is the root cause of our age's constant enshittification. Stock value is driven up by hype, so they change things even when there is no other reason to do so. Buzzwords like "AI-powered" makes it even worse.

When you think about it, it’s a hell of a job these men have created for themselves. For many years, you needed to create, think of something that didn’t exist, it required people with vision. Now, you just need to take the thing and destabilize it with cheaper parts. No thought at all.