{"id":17543,"date":"2025-07-25T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=17543"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:27:38","slug":"the-general-theory-of-enshittification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-general-theory-of-enshittification\/","title":{"rendered":"The General Theory of Enshittification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul Krugman\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It was only business<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone loves enshittification. Not the thing itself, of course. But Cory Doctorow\u2019s neologism was an instant hit, neatly encapsulating the public\u2019s growing disappointment, sometimes bordering on rage, with what was happening to internet platforms. His pithy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2023\/01\/21\/potemkin-ai\/#hey-guys\">summary of the process<\/a>&nbsp;was also brilliant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: paulkrugman.substack.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-general-theory-of-enshittification?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=277517&amp;post_id=169092636&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=58qrae&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Krugman\u00a0 It was only business Everyone loves enshittification. Not the thing itself, of course. But Cory Doctorow\u2019s neologism was an instant hit, neatly encapsulating the public\u2019s growing disappointment, sometimes bordering on rage, with what was happening to internet platforms. His pithy&nbsp;summary of the process&nbsp;was also brilliant: Here is how platforms die: first, they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17544,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}