But ultimately it is still run by humans who make a choice about what they’re deciding to do. They are not faceless, mindless automatons roaming the countryside gobbling up capital and turning out enshittification. There are people specifically making these decisions. Why argue as though it is immutable fact? The world can always be changed. As you say elsewhere in the thread people can choose to be different. There just doesn’t exist better motivation and opportunity to do so. Perhaps spreading awareness with discussion and memes helps create that. Would you argue that discussion would be fruitless because people can come to that conclusion without discussion, even though discussion makes it easier?
I think I would reframe this. Companies will do what they believe will make them profits aka the guy in management is going to get a raise or the CEO is going to get a pay increase / stick options because their profits increased due to their choices. Now if a community of people can put a large enough financial incentive (positive or negative) on a company they will ultimately change their behavior. If for instance today everyone started boycotting companies with practices they disliked then most definitely they would change and likely whoever was in charge before would be fired or punished somehow. They’re not going to change just to make people feel better or happy, no one cares about that so long as the money is flowing in a for-profit.
But ultimately it is still run by humans who make a choice about what they’re deciding to do. They are not faceless, mindless automatons roaming the countryside gobbling up capital and turning out enshittification. There are people specifically making these decisions. Why argue as though it is immutable fact? The world can always be changed. As you say elsewhere in the thread people can choose to be different. There just doesn’t exist better motivation and opportunity to do so. Perhaps spreading awareness with discussion and memes helps create that. Would you argue that discussion would be fruitless because people can come to that conclusion without discussion, even though discussion makes it easier?
I think I would reframe this. Companies will do what they believe will make them profits aka the guy in management is going to get a raise or the CEO is going to get a pay increase / stick options because their profits increased due to their choices. Now if a community of people can put a large enough financial incentive (positive or negative) on a company they will ultimately change their behavior. If for instance today everyone started boycotting companies with practices they disliked then most definitely they would change and likely whoever was in charge before would be fired or punished somehow. They’re not going to change just to make people feel better or happy, no one cares about that so long as the money is flowing in a for-profit.