[_DeadFred_]

I already posted this in this thread but unironically this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWF74KMRq04

Tech leaned so heavy into enshitification it has become it, to the point an entire word was coined to explain what tech was turning the world around us into. Tech still thinks 'but I'm a good person/we're doing good so.... XYZ is OK' and isn't willing to even see how they actually chose to present themselves.

[mrandish]

I guess I was just lucky that my entire adult working life basically spanned the democratization of personal computers and digital communications from the 80s up to a few years ago. I never knowingly shipped anything that intentionally made things harder, less powerful or less efficient. On the contrary, everything I was involved with was substantially faster, better and more powerful than existing alternatives. And usually cheaper too. I guess people starting careers in high tech today will either have to make some hard ethical choices or get good at rationalizing doing bad things.