Congratulations Kevin!

It's really important to recognise that this isn't a 'fixed part' of how capitalism operates. Pre-Jack-Welch CEs didn't think like this, they recognised that their products and services were the value of the company. Welch's rorting of financial regulation to hollow-out corps is the model now

When YouTube refuses to give you basic functionality - playing while not an active window - unless you pay up - that's what Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification" but it's also this vampire ticket-clipping mentality of pay-walling basic services. It doesn't improve the world, it only takes from it

The problem now is there's a whole generation of people who are so brain-fried from this expectation they have essentially been driven to gambling.. through apps, through crypto, through de-regulated often international sports betting. Not all, but a big chunk of AI products are also this.

There's a whole generation of 'innovators' who have taken on this mentality, that the 'smart' move is to create cattle-gates for consumers, so you can add nothing to the world but gain passive income from the captive-annoyance of others.

But you wouldn't know from the article, which only mentions 'climate conditions' half-way down!

oo oo, Do Joel next