Homelessness is solved by housing — not handcuffs.

Cyc has an inference engine that performs general logical deduction. Might be worth a blurb. It falls into AI, cognitive science, ontology, KR buckets.

I just bought your book. Excited to think this topic might make the last 20%.

I dunno about links, or causes -- I'm an armchair dismal scientist right? -- but concentration of capital distorts the market's ability to innovate. Borrowing from wikipedia: innovation "depends on the political and societal context in which innovation is taking place". Too little diversity is bad.

Same.

At a public policy level I think we are failing to create sufficient social support for creative destruction (Schumpeter). It still happens naturally, but it sjeems to be through trauma. I am not an economist, but it seems like we could do this better. You might enjoy www.caninnovate.ca.

I read "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" recently. It covers reasons why things are getting shittier with media services in particular. Quick read. Available as an audio CD on Spotify. I recommend it. I think there is thematic overlap with the industry in general, not specific to media.

I think it depends on the people; the often mutually exclusive goals they're trying to achieve; taxes and subsidies (carrots and sticks). Plectics.

Is it a question about industry in general or specific teams or products?

Is www.dictionary.com/browse/enshi... a sufficient explanation as to "why?"? The wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt... has more context, including two tentative solutions (the end-to-end principle, and the right-of-exit).

Could you share some examples of UX/UI where you see "awful"?

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