Who could each individually sell of any profitable assets, lay-off their employees, and enshittify their operations in search of shareholder value. Excellent plan.

Nothing written here can possibly be correct.

You’ve doctored your first two points to avoid the fact that widespread corruption and crumbling infrastructure are in fact a feature of the USA. That said, obviously we are not a ‘third world’ country, nor a ‘developing or under-developed’ country. We are, instead in our own special category of fucked. We have an absolutely giant economy, but as we have decided politically to disinvest in all of our public sectors, either by privatization or under-funding, we are rapidly becoming dysfunctional. Add to that the huge global reclaiming of surplus value from workers wages to plutocrats profits, and we are, as is obvious, in a political crisis shared by the rest of the neoliberal democracies.

Everyone will be working multiple shitty service jobs that robots are not cost effective to automate. Our miserable wages will be just sufficient to keep the wheels on the cart from falling off.

Containers are very lightweight. I have no desire to build anything so I always just add another service container to my existing stacks.

Look at it this way: industrialized warfare required capitalism.

Ah the enshittification proceeds. Content is not king. Revenue is king. Those railing against it will be swept away as the shit tsunami envelopes everything.

nope. It should be regulated by each state. The federal government should just back off.

Every now and then Lemmy has an actual discussion like this that gives me hope that it can become more than just an idiotic link aggregator. Thanks!

One does not ‘fire a tank at a house’, instead one’s tank fires at a house.

Leg breaking was invented to handle the idiots who were in to their bookies for way more than 100%.

I was at an immediate care clinic this morning for a non-Covid sinus infection and I was asked three times if I had lost taste and smell. Apparently they are looking for that as a primary symptom of long Covid.

In the US Covid vaccines are available at any pharmacy for free. Accessibility isn’t the problem. People have just stopped getting revaccinated. The ant vac propaganda has been effective.

The fact of the matter is that there is a 100% fatality rate for the set of people who have had even one mRNA vaccine. There is an identical fatality rate for the set of people who have had zero mRNA vaccines, but that isn’t important.

Also I should mention the timespan for the fatality rate: 150 years, but I won’t.

I assume you meant decent. Prime has always been substandard. They are indeed a descent service gliding right down into the enshittification cesspool.

A fine is a business expense to a organization like Sony.

I did manage to get (on the second try) to THE OBLIGATORY BAR SCENE before killing it dead.

Unwatchable mess. Mulan meets Star Wars. Was there an actual plot?

From now on I’m calling it Foot Football. That other game is Hand Football.

The reason our corporate overlords went to open office plans is that they are much less expensive than actual offices. All the other reasons were bullshit to justify enshittification.