Going by the official/intended definition of enshittification, it’s not “how shitty is the product” for consumers, that’s just a part of it. It’s a whole process:
Capture consumer clients by offering great service to users at low cost or free
Capture business client market by abusing captured users in favor of business clients
Fuck over captured business clients and consumer users for maximum profit/power.
Seeing as how the governments would qualify as a type of business client… the process is likely to, in the end, involve the government getting fucked.
how do you enshittify something that’s inherently a steaming pile of absolute crap?
Going by the official/intended definition of enshittification, it’s not “how shitty is the product” for consumers, that’s just a part of it. It’s a whole process:
Seeing as how the governments would qualify as a type of business client… the process is likely to, in the end, involve the government getting fucked.
Offer services for discounted rate and throw in some consulting.
After 3 years, contract renewal goes up 50% and no services deal.
All the enterprise tech companies are doing this.
The prophecy as foretold by the ORACLE