I got Enshittification as a Christmas present. When I saw that Cory wrote a new book that sounded interesting, I had to read it.
What I was hoping to see was some insights into why good things turn bad over time.
What I got was diversion, cover up and just plan Marxist propaganda. But I should have expected that from Cory who's a major leftist.The first few chapters are case studies in how Facebook, Amazon and Twitter became enshittified. This was nice because it gives us some reference as to how and why this is happening. But I felt something was missing. I didn't realize what it was until I got to the Twitter chapter.
He left out one important reason: The Woke culture.
The Twitter chapter is larger than the others. Twitter enshittification was also because the Woke "content moderators" squelching the speech of what they didn't like, which makes many others simply leave the platform and intensifies the enshittification.
He also does not credit Musk's takeover of Twitter for the start of the de-enshittification of the platform.
I tried to get through the rest of the book, but it was just the usual "Companies are bad because they don't help the idiots and useless people" tripe that I get from all Leftists.
Now that doesn't mean that Cory isn't right sometimes. He certainly hits the nail on the head many times through the book - but nothing that he writes was a surprise and was already pretty well known.
But he (purposely?) ignores the (negative) impact of the Wokies have and even credits the Elitists for helping to "fix" things (by making them worse) and, to no surprise, criticizes Trump for "making things worse" by fixing the problems caused by the Left.
This book is just typical leftist propaganda.
