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This week, I wrote about how the Great Enshittening - in which all the digital services we rely on become unusable, extractive piles of shit - did not result from the decay of the morals of tech company leadership, but rather, from the collapse of the forces that discipline corporate wrongdoing:
https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/
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They were never acting ethically out of the kindness of their heart to begin with, so their morals haven’t degraded (they were never there, it was always the regulations)
Can’t decay what was never there in the first place.
i feel like i get your point, but at the same time… not at all. Would you mind elaborating, please?
They were never acting ethically out of the kindness of their heart to begin with, so their morals haven’t degraded (they were never there, it was always the regulations)
thanks! :) that’s how i understand it too, but “what was never there in the first place” can refer to so many different things in this context :D