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It’s important to understand “enshitification” in the broader context of capitalist critique. Thorstein Veblen observer a century ago that “business” (ie, capitalists) were often at odds with “industry” (ie, the people who work to materially supply society), and would often deliberately slow or “sabotage” production to maintain artificial scarcity and thus profits.

We see this more expansively today, from copyrights and trademarks to planned obsolescence to product crippling to the deliberate destruction of oversupply. Industry works to supply us; capital restricts to profit. You cannot profit from something that is not scarce, but many things we experience as “scarce” are not organically so, like access to social media. There is no shortage of tweets.