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Re:The Cognitive Dark Forest by red-iron-pine on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:25AM (#47575507)
enshittification is a hip, tech-bro term to mean "rent seeking" and is nothing new
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Re:The Cognitive Dark Forest by chongli on Monday March 30, 2026 @10:02PM (#47581919)
Rent-seeking is too general of a term. You can rent-seek just by raising prices.

Enshittification specifically means deliberately making the product worse as a rent-seeking strategy.

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