• theparadox@lemmy.world
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      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:

      1. Capture consumer clients by offering great service to users at low cost or free
      2. Capture business client market by abusing captured users in favor of business clients
      3. 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.

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      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.

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    out of all the american companies to not trust, palantir should be top of the list. they are the bad guys. this isnt “lets put investors ahead of customers” its “we shall enslave the people and be in control”

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    You don’t say!??!?! A tech company? Building something they contain total control over and hoarding all the information and renting it out to people who then start relying on it and then MUST pay the price increase?

    That’s UNHEARD of! How dare they! It’s never been done before! Next they’ll be devious and start charging fee-fees! Check processing fee, electronic transfer fee, automated support call handling fee, interaction fee, query fee and government lobbying fee!