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Seventy-five fucking US dollars per month? To hear about how the ruination of apps is good, actually? I can remember when yearly subscriptions to magazines were like $12, fuck's sake.
It's a magazine for people for whom 75 dollaridoos is less than their daily brunch expenses
Is it bad?
$75 per month?
Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' bad.
This feels like the economic equivalent of climate change deniers promoting forest fires as, exclusively and inherently, a good thing because they 'make all that new growth' after
I truly cannot wait to see how evolution adapts all the trees to being constantly on fire.
Financial Times actually as good articles which is why I read them on archive. No way I'm paying for the newspaper of the ruling class, not even if I could afford it
If your cherry pie has even a little bit poop in it, it’s a poop cake. Not hard to grasp.
now hang on a minute, how did poop turn a pie into a cake though?
It's in the name.... "enshittification"...
Put this shit into dunk_tank...
Edit: to the article writer, not the poster...
$75 for a Financial Times subscription?! Why spend that much when for just $10 a month, I'll hold you down, put a funnel in your ear, and squeeze pudding directly into your skull
why can’t we just call it content decay or something like that instead
It's also called "platform decay" sometimes
Because breaking "civil" tone gives it impact.
Everyone in the US of a certain age remembers the fried-egg anti-drug ad (and perhaps the even more aggressive follow on a few years later) exactly because it took a much bolder tone than typical messaging on the subject.
Yeah but it isnt breaking civil tone, its as bad as ‘what in the cinnamon toast fuck’
fried-egg anti-drug ad
Oh right, the ableist ad that explicitly implied that people who take drugs are unintelligent brain fried losers, wasn't that in the same era where they told kids to "just say no"? It didn't break the civil tone at all. Stigmatizing drug use was the civil tone back then. Treating people who use drugs with dignity was seen in the popular media as "enabling" (spoiler alert: it still is seen as that).
Enshittification doesn't break the civil tone at all, you're just whining in a blogpost or bad news article about your favorite nonfree app choosing profit over you when they literally all do that.
I don't think people remember that ad for it having a "bolder tone" but rather because it was so absurd and unrelated to actual drug use in any way (except that I have seen people high as a kite re-enact that commercial and laugh hysterically, that's the only connection I've seen.)
Who's to say?
Apparently shareholders in those apps' publishers who own media orgs! Thanks FT
This is a fair price. If the article can tell you if spending $75 a month on this is bad, reading it could save you as much as $75 a month!
I did 4 motorcycles to access the advice link any it sent me a 5th. I don't want to look at any more scooters! You're wrong! Wrong!
Ok rant aside does that site hate vpns?
I mean... They're not wrong. Enshittification of apps (and every other aspect of daily life) is in fact positive to the people a publication like the Financial Times is written for. It sucks ass for the rest of us but for them it means exciting new revenue flows.
That's the good thing about the business press, they are much more honest when they're training to themselves then when they are talking to the proles.
