Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
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Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
Explaining 'inshittification' using Facebook, focusing on Stage 1: attracting users and locking them in with high switching costs.
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So here's the Facebook case study. In stage one of Enshitification, firms are good to their end users, but they find a way to lock those end users in. So Mark Zuckerberg, he rolls out the gate with his first public offering beyond just kids with a .edu American college address, but the whole world.
And he says, look, I know all you people have
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when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more
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