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The causative factor behind Doctorow's enshittification is these asshat companies controlling both the demand and the supply side.

Disintermediation killed the mom and pop music stores, streaming outright killed physical media. Kids starting university don't understand the concept of a file system; documents just live in the docs app, right?

Maybe we end up in a situation where there's no escape because the median user is held hostage by the lack of knowledge how the internet should have been.