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Re:The Fancy Rug Dilemma by skybrian on Saturday August 23, 2025 @10:26AM (#44996256)
What is the downward sloping arrow in those charts?
Re:The Fancy Rug Dilemma by dehrmann on Saturday August 23, 2025 @01:16PM (#44997444)
Enshitification. It's where the price goes up, but the quality actually goes down.
Re:The Fancy Rug Dilemma by frede on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:23PM (#44999254)
I was thinking more of something like mechanical watches - more expensive than a quartz watch and less accurate.
Re:The Fancy Rug Dilemma by dehrmann on Saturday August 23, 2025 @06:05PM (#44999505)
Those are the same as fancy rugs. A machine will make better rugs, but you're paying for the artisanal story, or whatever your abstract value is.