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by godelski 26 days ago
Let me repeat myself

  >>>> When making more money requires degrading the product you know we've fucked up
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That just sounds like business to me. You do whatever makes money.
Maybe it is today, but that's not how it's always been. The idea is that competition means the best product wins. But there's a lot it ways to degrade competition, not just monopolization. We're living in a lemon economy
There's never been any rule that the best product wins. Trivial example if I make RAM chips and give them away for free I'll lose.
This is called enshittification. Business behaves like with with the lack of regulations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277484