Welcome to the final boss of scams in the age of technology: Enshittification

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We’re replaying five deep conversations over the Christmas period for you to listen to on your travels and downtime — please enjoy!

Is platformisation essentially just an industrial level scam? We will deep-dive the enshittification playbook to understand how companies lock users into decaying platforms, and get away with it. Cory shares ideas on what we can do differently to turn tide. Listen to learn what a ‘chickenised reverse centaur’ is…

Further reading & resources:

Buy Enshittifcation now from Verso Books!
Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow
On The Media series on Enshittification
Pluralistic — Daily Links and essays by Cory Doctorow
Conservatism Considered as a Movement of Bitter Rubes — Cory on why conservatism creates a friendly environment for scams
How I Got Scammed — Cory on his personal experiences of being scammed
All of Cory’s books
All (Antitrust) Politics Are Local — the entry to Pluralistic that Cory wrote on the day of recording

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