@ChrisMayLA6 @pluralistic In my younger days this would have been dismissed as just rose tinted thinking. But "enshittification" has made this objectively true. I know that websites used to be usable without barrelloads of ad blockers, search engines actually gave us what we searched for not what advertisers want us to see. Politicians caught wrong doing resigned. Companies tried to provide a decent product for a decent profit, instead of trying to grab maximum cash for minimum product And so on