Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
mamot.fr
Attached: 1 image This week, I wrote about how the Great Enshittening - in which all the digital services we rely on become unusable, extractive piles of shit - did not result from the decay of the morals of tech company leadership, but rather, from the collapse of the forces that discipline corporate wrongdoing: https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/ 1/
    • Settoletto 🍤OPMA
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      1 year ago

      i feel like i get your point, but at the same time… not at all. Would you mind elaborating, please?

      • Slowy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        They were never acting ethically out of the kindness of their heart to begin with, so their morals haven’t degraded (they were never there, it was always the regulations)

        • Settoletto 🍤OPMA
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          1 year ago

          thanks! :) that’s how i understand it too, but “what was never there in the first place” can refer to so many different things in this context :D

  • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The amoral corporate behavior is to offer everyone involved so much money, which is the weak point of all humans - if there’s enough money involved, it should be able to pay out as many people as it takes, to get something done your way.

    What we’re experiencing now, is the ridiculous power some have and the way they abuse it.

    Imo