• porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    This isn’t enshittification in the traditional sense, they haven’t captured the market enough for that. They’re just panicking because they’re burning cash way too fast.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      “They’re burning cash too fast”

      Their most recent earnings was 82.9B just last quarter, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        Don’t wanna be “that guy”, but if if 95% of the time people use it to generally mean “greedy companies making things shitty to try and wring an extra buck”, then that just is what that word means now.

        It leaves a vacuum for the concept it was originally intended to describe, but that’s how she goes.

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          16 hours ago

          I guess so. But the original definition was useful and encapsulated a specific thing. And the everyone discarding that definition is a bummer. But it’s not like there is anything to be done about it. And Doctoro has said he’s not too annoyed by it himself.

          • Windex007@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            I wholeheartedly agree. I love when I hear a new word, and a mushy concept just snaps into focus. Like, yea, I understood that concept in my “gut” but had not special word for it? So gratifying.

            Feels like theft when it gets appropriated to something else.

            Glad to hear Cory is cool w/ it. Putting a word (even by accident) to a poorly-expresable part of the human experience that let’s people communicate more effectively? That is a contribution to society that most of us only dream of. Fucker did it by accident. Thrilled for him.