If a thing works, it works. Then corporations realized that doesn’t work to keep growing like a cancer. Queue: Make the old thing bad (by enshittification) or pour billions into ads saying no, this NEW thing is what you need now!

  • KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca
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    1 month ago

    Reminds me of how general motors would paint each yearly relefresh of their cars a specific color so that you could tell if someone had the newest model.

    Even that small amount of social pressure did wonders for their bottom line.

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        And yet 4 generations later… The normies are still larping it

        God forbid Karen seen with an android phone… That’s for the poors 🤢