In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.
Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?
I don’t know how to phrase this, and it’s just my silly opinion, but I also think the thing that has changed is that our populations have gotten so large with enough chunks of it financially illiterate that it’s become impossible to put pressure on corporations.
What I mean is, for every one of YOU there are 3 idiots that will pay the inflated price and put it on the card because they don’t know / care how to spend.
It’s the same trend everywhere.
Cars, heated seat subscription? Something that should instantly nuke a company, barley does anything because enough idiots with money are buying it.
1000 $ phones with less features? Again, idiots buy it.
You can go down any of the enshitification targets and you’ll find a ripe group of consumers allowing the company to hold out and wait until you and I HAVE to buy their product at inflated prices because we’re reached a point where our old item has died.
That is the trend that I’ve noticed. Bad behavior isn’t getting punished because enough morons are oblivious.