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My friend Polymath Paul sent me many of the references for this post. Writer and activist Cory Doctorow named the phenomenon in his October 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. Additional material comes from Ars Technica, The Tyee, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Unbekoming Substack. The verdicts are mine.
Summary
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow’s term for the deliberate degradation of products and services, follows a predictable cycle. Attract users with quality, exploit them to satisfy business customers, then squeeze everyone until the whole thing collapses.
• Doctorow blames market structure. He is half right. Psychopaths run the consolidated corporations and the Globalist-funded institutions, and their behavior goes beyond profit. They damage families, food, and housing with apparent enthusiasm.
• The divorce revolution doubled the U.S. divorce rate over 20 years, from 9.2 to 22.6 per 1,000 married women. No-fault laws, popular movies, and funded feminism sold Western women on family destruction as liberation.
• The 5 tech giants, Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, reached their extraction phase at the same time. Platforms have no natural 25-year lifespan. The Globalists removed the constraints that kept them honest on a coordinated schedule.
• Food, housing, appliances, cars, restaurants, and architecture follow the same downward arc: hollow out the substance, keep the glossy shell, and hand the buyer the bill.
• Game theory explains the pattern. Cooperation wins only when cheaters face retaliation. The Globalists built monopolies and captured regulators to eliminate retaliation, making cheating the winning strategy.
Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality. ~ Michael Ellner
What enshittification is
Cory Doctorow coined the term in November 2022 to describe what happens to a platform once it achieves dominance. First, the platform is good and attracts users. Next, it abuses those users to please its business customers, the advertisers and the sellers. Finally, with everyone locked in, it squeezes both groups to maximize shareholder returns. Then it decays and dies, but only after the last dollar has been extracted.
The American Dialect Society named enshittification its 2023 word of the year, and Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary followed suit in 2024. The term quickly spread beyond the tech world. People now apply it to public services, groceries, and airline seats, and Doctorow welcomes the drift because the pattern is the same everywhere. Doctorow expanded the idea into his 2025 book, and the concept spread far beyond his original targets because readers recognized the arc in everything they touch.
He identifies 4 forces that once kept companies honest: competition, regulation, users’ ability to modify or escape the product, and skilled workers’ leverage. All 4 collapsed together over the past 2 decades due to consolidation, regulatory capture, restrictive terms of service, and mass layoffs. When the constraints disappeared, the incentive shifted from building products to harvesting captives.
The word is crude on purpose. Polite vocabulary, such as market maturation or margin expansion, obscures what everyone experiences as betrayal. A crude word for a crude act names the enemy accurately, and accurate naming is the first step in fighting back.
Doctorow focused on digital platforms. I want to extend his model because what we are watching goes beyond capitalism as capitalism. The companies doing the most damage hurt everyone around them, including themselves, in ways no rational actor would choose. Only a psychopath explains that.
The psychopaths behind the mechanism
I laid out the case in “Why Is the Criminal Case Against the Global Psychopaths Ignored?” The short version: psychopaths want more than money and power. They derive visceral satisfaction from inflicting harm. Environmental poisoning beyond any profit motive, lying when the truth would work better, and destroying win-win arrangements in favor of win-lose outcomes are their signatures. The Globalist network that funds the media, the universities, the think tanks, and the regulatory agencies is run by such men. They are making everything worse on purpose.
This claim goes beyond what Doctorow will say, and I label it my judgment rather than a laboratory finding. The evidence for it fills the rest of this essay. Watch for the pattern: in sector after sector, the damage exceeds what greed alone would produce, and the same funders appear behind the wreckage.
An honest businessman seeks repeat customers, which requires that both sides benefit. The psychopath seeks dominance. When hurting the counterparty gains him nothing, he hurts him anyway because hurting is the point. Once men of this type control the largest pools of capital, the whole economy reorganizes around extraction.
The family: sold a lie, broken on purpose
The U.S. divorce rate in 1960 was 9.2 per 1,000 married women. By 1980, it had more than doubled to 22.6. About half of the children born to married parents in the 1970s saw their parents divorce, compared with 11 percent of children born in the 1950s.
W. Bradford Wilcox documents these figures in “The Evolution of Divorce” for National Affairs. Fewer than 20 percent of the couples who married in 1950 divorced, while about 50 percent of those who married in 1970 did.
Wilcox also documents the damage that followed children from broken homes: more poverty, worse schooling, more drug use, and more crime. The sociologist Paul Amato estimates that if family stability had remained at its 1960 level, the country would see about 70,000 fewer suicide attempts each year.
The mechanism was no-fault divorce. California passed the first such law in 1969, and Ronald Reagan signed it. Wilcox notes one likely reason: Reagan’s first wife, Jane Wyman, had unfairly accused him of “mental cruelty” in their 1948 divorce. The new law ended the charade of fabricated wrongdoing and gutted the contract. Within 15 years, nearly every state had followed suit, and nobody needed a reason to dissolve a marriage anymore. One spouse’s unilateral decision was enough.
The feminist movement that pushed for no-fault divorce and marketed it as liberation was no spontaneous uprising. Globalist-funded foundations, media companies, and academic departments promoted second-wave feminism. A stable family is a unit of economic independence, social solidarity, and cultural transmission. Break it, and you create atomized, dependent consumers who look to the state and corporations for support. The funders understood this. The women who marched did not.
The video “Selling Divorce to the West” documents the sales campaign using graphs and archival footage. Its thesis: the divorce revolution was sold to Western women as freedom, yet it delivered family destruction and population atomization. The numbers above track the campaign precisely. Marriage rates have fallen since, and American births are now below the replacement level.
Comment: Divorce enriches lawyers, therapists, landlords, and Pharma while impoverishing everyone it touches. Any institution that profits from misery will manufacture more of it, and the family courts have been manufacturing it for 50 years.
Big Tech: the cleanest con in modern history
Doctorow’s original targets were the Big 5: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. His most important observation is that all 5 entered their extraction phase at roughly the same time. Platforms have no natural 25-year lifespan. The constraints that kept them honest collapsed all at once, so the harvest began everywhere at once.
Google started by delivering clean, relevant search results. Today, its search page buries organic results under ads, links to Google’s properties, and artificial intelligence (AI) summaries that spread misinformation. It also rigged the ad market through a side deal with Facebook, code-named Jedi Blue. Ars Technica “surveyed the worst offenders” and calls the AI feature “part of the current wave of AI-flavored enshittification.” In January 2023, Google fired 12,000 employees. At the same time, it funded a stock buyback large enough to have paid their salaries for 27 years.
Amazon began by selling goods below cost to build an installed base. When Diapers.com refused Amazon’s acquisition offer, Amazon burned 100 million dollars selling diapers below cost until the smaller company folded. Today, Doctorow calculates, sellers lose 45 to 51 cents of every dollar they earn on the platform to Amazon’s fees. The first pages of any search are paid placements disguised as recommendations, and sellers who refuse to buy visibility disappear from the results. Apple runs the same racket at a more polite price, taking 30 cents of every dollar its app suppliers earn. Every customer pays the markup.
Meta built a network of family and friends, then turned it into an engagement machine. Publishers were pushed into dependency, then throttled until they paid for reach. Creators built audiences, only to see algorithm shifts erase them. The inflated video metrics that lured media companies into a ruinous “pivot to video” revealed how extraction hides behind the language of error. Smart TVs, according to the same Ars Technica survey, have become data-collecting billboards that spy on their owners. These are deliberate product decisions by people who know you are locked in.
Microsoft supplied its chapter in July 2024. A single glitch in a security update for Windows software, which runs about 70 percent of the world’s computers, sent blue screens across the planet. Airlines, hospitals, and banks froze. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk called it “a grand enshittification event,” and the lesson holds. When everything depends on one fragile monopoly platform, one bad file can stop civilization.
Food: the nutrition extraction is complete
My post “Almost Everything Scares Me These Days” covers related ground. Over the past 60 years, the vitamins and minerals in produce have declined. A 2024 review in the journal Foods, titled “An Alarming Decline in the Nutritional Quality of Foods,” quantifies the losses. Iron in grapefruit fell 85 percent, iron in collard greens fell 81 percent, and vitamin A in bananas dropped 57 percent. Industrial farming breeds for yield and appearance. Pesticides and synthetic fertilizers strip the soil of the microbial life that supplies minerals to plants.
Meanwhile, about 70 percent of products on grocery shelves are ultra-processed: manufactured combinations of refined grains, industrial oils, added sugars, and synthetic additives. Nikiforuk observes in “The Enshittification of Everything” that these products hack human satiety the way platform algorithms hack attention. The result is the same in both cases: runaway consumption and a body or brain that no longer knows when it has had enough.
Consolidation completes the picture. Three companies, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta, control about 53 percent of global seed sales. Four companies control 45 percent of farm machinery sales, and 4 account for 58 percent of pharmaceutical sales. Nikiforuk adds the Canadian version: 5 retailers decide what reaches the grocery shelf, and 2 companies slaughter 95 percent of the country’s beef. When a handful of corporations own the seed, the field, the factory, and the shelf, they choose margin over nourishment. The consumer gets the residue.
The same Globalist-funded foundations promoted chemical agriculture, captured regulators, and smeared anyone who questioned seed oils as a crank. They lied about tobacco, then about seed oils, and then about statins. Treat every nutritional claim from a captured agency as suspect until proven otherwise.
Comment: Fraud vitiates everything. Once an agency has been caught lying about one product, its pronouncements on every other product lose their authority. This is both a legal principle and a survival skill.
New housing: a 15-year house with a 30-year mortgage
Housing reveals the cruelty of the pattern because the house is the largest purchase most families make, and the defects remain hidden until after closing. What follows is based on my observation of the industry rather than on a controlled study, and I invite readers with construction experience to correct or confirm it.
The few companies that dominate residential construction build on compacted fill dirt, which settles unevenly and cracks foundations. Composite structural beams fail when moisture intrudes. Roof flashing is installed incorrectly, making leaks a question of when rather than whether. The fixtures shine in the model home and fail within 5 years, and the appliances are the cheapest grade the vendors offer.
All of it is advertised as built to code. Code compliance is the minimum standard that keeps a builder out of jail, not a mark of quality. Buyers sign arbitration agreements that render lawsuits toothless. The builder’s warranty covers 1 year, the exact period before major defects surface. The service life of such a unit looks closer to 15 years than to the 30-year mortgage that financed it. The builder’s incentive ends at closing, and the buyer owns a depreciating shell built on packed dirt and financial cynicism.
Comment: Furniture tells the same story. A 1940s oak table survives 80 years and 3 moves. Its particleboard replacement sags within 5 years and fails at the first disassembly. Multiply that across every object a family owns, and the middle class’s net worth quietly evaporates.
The uglification of everything you see
The same agenda governs what our buildings look like. The Unbekoming Substack traces the story in “The Uglification Agenda: How Oligarchs Weaponized Architecture.” The essay builds on Jacob Nordangård’s research into the Rockefeller network, as presented in his book Rockefeller: Controlling the Game. In 987 AD, envoys of Prince Vladimir of Kiev entered the Hagia Sophia and wept, reporting that they no longer knew whether they stood on earth or in heaven. Beauty of that magnitude converts men. The oligarch-funded aesthetic movements of the 20th century replaced it with concrete boxes that flatten the spirit. The Rockefeller-founded Museum of Modern Art led the promotion.
Comment: I have been there, and it is a display of dog shit.
Nordangård documents a patient, multi-generational strategy in which the same foundations that shaped modern medicine and education also funded the aesthetic movements that made men easier to manage. An ugly environment produces demoralized people, and demoralized people obey. Compare any pre-war courthouse with the concrete slab that replaced it, and ask which was built by people who respected you. The uglification of architecture and the enshittification of products come from the same playbook: strip out what nourishes, keep what extracts, and tell the customer that the degradation is progress.
Private equity eats the table
Restaurant chains illustrate the extraction cycle in miniature. JAB Holding Company bought Panera Bread in 2017 for about 7.5 billion dollars. Reuters later reported that Panera loosened ingredient and animal-welfare standards to save about 21 million dollars a year. Customers noticed frozen ingredients, smaller portions, and higher prices, and sales sagged until the company announced a turnaround plan to restore the quality it had stripped out.
Comment: I wrote Butchered by “Healthcare” over three years sitting in Panera and can report this is all true.
The mechanics repeat wherever private equity lands. The firm buys the company with borrowed money and secures the debt against the target itself. It charges management fees, cuts labor and ingredient quality to inflate earnings, and plans its exit within 5 years. Long-term brand equity means nothing to an owner who will be gone before customers notice. The debt stays behind.
Red Lobster received rougher treatment. Golden Gate Capital bought the chain in 2014 for 2.1 billion dollars and funded the purchase in part by selling the restaurants’ real estate for 1.5 billion dollars. The chain then paid rent, 200 million dollars a year by 2023, on buildings it once owned, with many leases priced above market.
Moody’s downgraded the chain years before the end, citing its persistent debt, and nobody changed course. Golden Gate took the profits, and Red Lobster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2024. The playbook loads the company with debt, strips the assets, extracts the fees, and leaves the corpse for the creditors, the workers, and the customers. Hospitals, veterinary clinics, dental chains, and hospice companies have been rolled up under the same model, with the same results.
The rest of the rot
The pattern reaches every sector. A partial inventory is provided.
Cars: your new vehicle is a subscription service. BMW charged monthly fees for heated seats already installed in the car. General Motors (GM) sold OnStar driving data to the brokers LexisNexis and Verisk, which passed it to insurance companies. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint that stopped the practice found that location data was harvested from some drivers as often as every 3 seconds. The Mozilla Foundation reviewed 25 car brands and flagged every one for privacy failures, calling it the worst product category it has ever examined. Nissan’s privacy policy admits collecting data on drivers’ sexual activity, and 84 percent of brands sell driver data, a 750 billion-dollar industry by 2030.
The decay extends beyond the dashboard. MIT Sloan Management Review warns in “Enshittification Comes to ‘Smart’ Products” that digital control allows manufacturers to keep charging for hardware after the sale. The practice degrades both the product and the owner’s sense of ownership. A 50,000-dollar vehicle now has the lifespan of a smartphone because the software dies when the manufacturer stops supporting it.
Comment: Anyone who buys a new car is a retard. My car is eight years old with 130,000 miles and still going strong. It is a Lexus, and I bought it used.
Appliances: they once lasted 50 years, but now they last only 5. Appliances built in the 1970s ran for 30 to 50 years, and an ordinary person could repair them with ordinary tools. Today they last about 5 years because they contain cheaper materials, unnecessary electronics, and proprietary parts that vanish from stock within 3 to 5 years. Five brands dominate the market. Some use proprietary screws, and appliances now make up half of the world’s electronic waste. The anthropologist Joseph Tainter argued that civilizations collapse when the cost of maintaining their complexity outpaces their means. We are testing his thesis on our washing machines.
Streaming: you pay more for less. The original promise was a single, affordable subscription replacing cable. Content libraries are now split across 6 to 8 services, each raising prices, adding ad tiers, and hunting down password sharers. The National Football League (NFL) scatters its games across Peacock, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. Cable’s hated single bill is back, split 8 ways and costing more. None of it helps the viewer.
Dating apps: designed to keep you single. The stated purpose is matchmaking. The business model requires failure, because a matched couple stops paying while a lonely subscriber keeps paying. The algorithms therefore maximize time on the platform rather than successful pairings, and customers stay because the alternative is isolation. The apps compete for subscribers, not for successful matches. The product works against its stated goal, which gives this branch of enshittification a sadistic flavor.
Academic publishing: knowledge for sale. Predatory journals charge researchers to publish and then print whatever pays. Peer review, already compromised by conflicts of interest, drowns under the volume. Pharma floods the degraded system with ghostwritten studies that flatter drugs that fail, a racket I documented at length in Butchered by “Healthcare”.
The gig economy: work that pays less every year. Uber entered cities by ignoring licensing rules and subsidizing rides with venture capital. Once it achieved a duopoly with Lyft, surge pricing raised riders’ costs while drivers’ share drifted downward. A 2025 study in the British Journal of Industrial Relations traced the arc: favorable terms build the labor pool, and then policy shifts deliver precarity,* opacity, and unequal power. Workers who once made a living now make a subsistence living, and the platform pockets the difference.
*Precarity is the state of having little to no predictability or security in life, especially regarding jobs, money, or housing. It means living with constant stress and uncertainty about whether you will have work or money tomorrow.
Education: Dick and Jane were casualties, too. Jim Arnold of the Liar’s World Substack documented the campaign to strip phonics, the easiest path to literacy, from reading instruction. Phonics teaches a child to sound out words, and it works. The replacement methods taught guessing. Generations were kept reading poorly on purpose, and a population that reads poorly checks nothing. I covered his work in the criminal case post linked above.
Energy: even the oil wells have gotten worse. Nikiforuk extends the term to fossil fuels. The easy pools are drained, so the industry fracks: hundreds of trucks, lakes of water, mountains of sand, and chemical blasts that trigger earthquakes from Argentina to British Columbia. Mining and fracking now consume about 15 percent of the energy they produce, and projections put the figure near half by 2050. The product costs more, quality falls, and the producer poisons the neighborhood on his way out.
Government services: the family, again. Child Protective Services (CPS) is accused in many jurisdictions of overreach, of separating children from parents without adequate cause, and of targeting single-parent, low-income, and stressed households. The evidence here is anecdotal and contested, and I rank it below the documented figures elsewhere in this essay. If Globalist fingerprints appear on policies that remove children from intact families, the finding will fit the pattern exactly.
Concert tickets, airline seats, clothing that pills after 3 washes, youth sports converted into pay-to-play pipelines, and rural towns hollowed out by chain retail belong on the same list. Readers will supply their own examples, because everyone has them now.
Civilizations follow the same arc
Nikiforuk pushes the concept to its limit. The average civilization lasts about 250 years, or 5 times as long as a washing machine built in 1970. Every one moves through cooperation, overreach, stagnation, decay, and collapse. Things start out well for the users, and then the rulers of the era grow greedy, feud among themselves, and abuse the commoners. William Ophuls describes the terminal stage in Immoderate Greatness: faded ideals, feuding factions, and problems nobody solves. Joseph Tainter adds the diagnosis, and the internet writer Clay Shirky adds the hope: when a system stops rewarding complexity, the people who learn to work simply inherit the future.
Tit for tat: the mathematics of betrayal
Game theorists study a puzzle called the prisoner’s dilemma, in which 2 players each choose whether to cooperate or cheat. Cheating pays best in a single round, so 2 rational strangers betray each other and both lose. The mathematician and psychologist Anatol Rapoport formulated the answer for repeated games: tit for tat. Cooperate on the first move, then mirror whatever your opponent did last, rewarding cooperation with cooperation and responding to betrayal with immediate retaliation. The strategy appears across economics, psychology, sociology, and biology, where it goes by the name reciprocal altruism. Its character is easy to state: never cheat first, always respond to cheating, and drop the grudge the moment cooperation returns.
Tit-for-tat wins for one reason: the game repeats, so a cheater pays for betrayal in the next round. Healthy markets work the same way. A merchant who cheats a customer loses that customer. Competitors punish the defector with better deals, regulators fine the fraud, and skilled workers walk out. Every one of Doctorow’s 4 constraints is a retaliation mechanism, a way for the other player to respond to betrayal in the next round.
You see tit-for-tat in every functioning town. The mechanic who overcharges a widow loses the county’s business by Sunday. The builder who cuts corners watches his referrals dry up, and the grocer who thumbs the scale answers for it at church. Reputation is the ledger of the iterated game. For most of human history, it kept commerce honest without a single regulator because every seller knew he would face the same buyer again.
Now remove the next round from the game. Lock in the customer so he has nowhere to go, buy the competitors, capture the regulator, and break the workers with layoffs. The iterated game collapses into a single round, and in that round, betrayal is the winning strategy. Enshittification is defection with retaliation removed.
The Globalists did the removing, and that is the line of causation. It explains the timing that puzzles Doctorow. The tech giants defected together because the retaliation mechanisms were dismantled together by Chicago School economists and captured judges whose careers were funded by the same foundations.
The model also explains the psychopath’s role. A normal businessman defects when the structure rewards it. A psychopath builds the structure because he prefers win-lose outcomes, even when cooperation would pay him more. Rapoport’s mathematics assumes players who want to win and has no category for players who want the other side to lose.
This also explains why predators favor scale and anonymity. A defector survives in a big city, a global corporation, or an unaccountable foundation because no one there faces the same counterparty twice. He does not survive long in a small town.
Comment: Tit-for-tat begins with cooperation and never throws the first punch. That describes ordinary people on the receiving end of all this. They cooperated for decades and are only now realizing that the other player has been defecting since the opening move.
Synthesis
Doctorow says enshittification is structural: remove competition, weaken regulation, lock in users, and extraction becomes inevitable. He is right about the mechanism but wrong about the cause. He treats the removal of constraints as drift, when it was demolition.
Regulatory agencies were captured on a coordinated timeline. Antitrust law was defanged by scholars whose chairs the foundations endowed. The legal structures that once limited monopoly power came down piece by piece, and the men who dismantled them knew what they were doing. My post “The ‘Elites’ Want to Kill 4/5ths of Us” explains where this program is headed if nobody stops it.
Doctorow proposes 2 structural cures. Force the platforms to deliver what the user asked for rather than what the algorithm prefers. Guarantee the right to exit, so a customer can leave without losing their data, audience, or purchases. Both restore the next round of the game and are worth fighting for. They treat the disease as impersonal, though it is not.
The response follows from game theory. First, name the strategy, because defectors depend on the illusion that this is how markets behave. It is not how markets behave. It is a choice they made, and choices can be reversed.
Second, restore your side of the game. Grow food, buy from local builders with reputations to protect, use open-source software, and starve the platforms that surveil you. Third, restore retaliation at scale by supporting anyone willing to break up the monopolies and prosecute the fraud. Tit-for-tat forgives the moment the other player returns to cooperation. The psychopaths never will, which is why they must be identified, removed from power, and held to account. Until then, the enshittification continues.
Selected references
• Doctorow C. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (2025)
• “As Internet Enshittification Marches On, Here Are Some of the Worst Offenders,” Ars Technica (2025)
• Nikiforuk A. “The Enshittification of Everything,” The Tyee (2024)
• Wilcox WB. “The Evolution of Divorce,” National Affairs (2009)
• Bhardwaj RL et al. “An Alarming Decline in the Nutritional Quality of Foods,” Foods (2024)
• “It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy,” Mozilla Foundation (2023)
• “Enshittification Comes to ‘Smart’ Products,” MIT Sloan Management Review (2026)
• “Selling Divorce to the West” (Blackpilled, Bitchute)
• “The Uglification Agenda: How Oligarchs Weaponized Architecture,” Unbekoming Substack (2025)
• Wikipedia: Enshittification
30 year mortgage? I was aghast when the President was trying to hawk 50 year mortgages! Not to sound boastful, but I can’t tell you how gratifying it is to read someone with letters after their name saying what I’ve been hollering about for years. I’m usually dismissed as some old guy still fighting The Cold War. We’re being deliberately subverted, the enemies are everywhere, and we’d better get real and get a grip soon.
The MD is a disadvantage to my insights, not an advantage.
Zillow = Real Estate Enshittification. They offer u201Cfreeu201D for sale by owner ads yet they hold the ad hostage for 3 days while they farm it out to slimy realtors who pay Zillow for the leads. In some instances, the naive owner gets a notification from the realtor stating they have a buyer for their property but they have to pay a commission. Properties that donu2019t sell in the 3 days are activated on Zillow but only with u201CPremiereu201D agent contactsu2026on a FSBO listing. The owner knows nothing of this and is not informed. So the naive sucker buyer contacts the agent listed on the FSBO property and the agent says u201Csure Iu2019ll show you the property but you need to sign a Buyer Broker agreementu201D. People are lured by the word FREE, not realizing in the end they get FU
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Good to know. Supposed to look at a home on Monday through Zillow. Second guessing that appointment.
One of my central viewpoints for a long time is that “Enshittification” was deliberately enacted in each life essential resource (e.g., medicine, argiculture, education, energy, transportation) to pull people away from a traditional sustainable approach into something that could be rationed and controlled to extract the maximum wealth and value from each person in the society.
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A good article about DMSO from Mary Beth Pfeifer from 8/8/26…https://rescue.substack.com/p/stanley-jacobs-remarkable-medicine?r=9er3b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
The enshittification of education includes the crazy over focus on mandated standardized tests that teachers now teach to excess, and push out teaching of practical real life needed skills, critical thinking, music, etc. Drill the kids for the test scores!
“to extract the maximum wealth and value from each person in the society.” indeed, until ‘you will OWN NOTHING and BE HAPPY’.
Womenu2019s liberation – you mean not staying any longer to put up with violence like they did in the years past? My mother was a victim years ago with no way to get out.
Where I live in the Australian bush a pre-2015 Toyota or Izuzu ute is a treasure. Electronics have gone from being a handy add-on to being a maddening, all-pervasive ritual.
Your country doctor who knows what bites or ails you? A visit to a rural medical centre is like walking into a used car yard where you will be sold trash and promises – by a massively indebted carpet bagger whose second language is English.
Time for Philip the Fair to round up those Templars again. Never mind the niceties, Phil.
Killing agriculture.
The enshitfication will soon end. No one alive today will be alive in 120 years and that includes every globalist that is alive today. As a voice crying in the wilderness, once said, repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. Justice is not far off. There will be mercy for all who repent (turn away from sin) and believe (believe on Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin), and there will be judgment and justice for all who do not (eternal consignment to the place reserved for devil and rebel angels). I’m telling you that you don’t want to be there and God does not want any human to be there. That’s why he sent his Son (Jesus) to pay the penalty for sin that we deserve. Jesus took our sins upon himself and paid the price that we should’ve paid. This video will show you how you can be saved from the judgment to come. https://youtu.be/ZyY6ioH_cPQ?is=xefSMNtaUcIpR83F
True and final justice will come in the Judgment, after the millennial reign of the Messiah Yahshua, and the last resurrection of the dead. Surely we are seeing the buildup to the Beast system that will force, or attempt to force, all people on the earth to comply and worship it/him, or be killed. It is total control, no freedom of choice.
They rehearsed this plan already, with the attempted vaccination/murder/dna-changing of the entire population of the world. I want Fauci to receive justice now, which he deserves, but he will certainly get it in the end.
There is mercy and forgiveness now, for those who repent of sin. “Sin is the transgression of the Law”. But those who choose to take the mark of the beast will be doomed to the lake of fire. The masses are being conditioned to believe falsehoods and lies, and to worship the government as the almighty, not the Almighty himself, Yahweh Elohim.
iu2019ve never heard that term before, but Iu2019ve certainly noticed what the term refers to on a widespread scale and it makes me sick.
Itu2019s time to eliminate compromise and mediocrity and demand excellence.
We were once a nation of excellence and absolute world leaders in terms of quality culture and government.
Itu2019s time to get back to that position because thatu2019s where we belong on the world stage and where we belong as a nation.
I agree.
Zillow participants need to keep their batteries fresh in their BULLSHITOMETER!!!!
Wow, this was an excellent post. I’ve skimmed it and will read it more carefully later. However, the themes I saw match my beliefs and experiences. I love the word “shittification”; it covers so much without explanation.
I thought of a simple example of shittification; it’s small, yet when combined with all the other shiftiness, it says a lot about the propaganda of efficiencies for the consumer. It’s also a pet peeve of mine. That supposed helpfulness of the consumer phone prompts. Everyone will agree you go to hell and back trying to reach a human in the customer help section of a company, usually larger companies. After many mind-numbingly long attempts, you reach a point where the AI master tells you you’ve reached a wrong prompt and then tells you to try again, or worse, hangs up.
Efficiency is only one way; it’s for the company. They now make the consumer do all the work of finding an answer instead of a friendly human receptionist. To me, it’s diabolical and is the opposite of customer service. I go out of my way to deal with companies that still answer the phone; it’s rare, but it’s so refreshing.
Okay, my rant is over. uD83EuDD23
Phil – I totally agree with you.
As I walked into a Fry’s grocery store yesterday, I saw an employee pushing in a bunch of grocery carts. He turned around but didn’t even make eye contact with me. Just walked right past me.
Another customer walked in as I was pulling out a cart and I casually told him, “They don’t even say hi to us.” He said, “It’s the neighborhood we’re in.” I agreed with him.
Poor neighborhood means customer service is nil.
Richer neighborhood and the employees are happy to greet and assist their customers.
When I am in a grocery store and an employee just walks past me, I say openly as if I was the employee, “HELLO, welcome. Are you finding everything okay?”
Sometimes the employee hears me then ignores me.
Thats not really true about the richer neighborhood. If anything staff is less inclined to talk to patrons who are snobby anyway. A study just came out that said that people say 3000 fewer words per day. Now nobody talks to anybody and men were the worst of all. Its everywhere; thank social media and watch it accelerate with reliance on AI for “thinking” and “companionship.”
When I go into my health grocer its like Norm walking into Cheers 🙂
You just have to say “agent” over and over or sometimes “0” works.
Robert, Thank you for another fine post on the reality we are facing. The first half of my career I was in the apartment business and part of the consolidation and and enshitification. I left. But it took me a while to realize what I had contributed to, including what some have called price fixing using pricing engines like airlines. I donu2019t feel great about those years. After leaving I tried to enter the single family rental market but found myself u201Cboxed outu201D by insiders in Private Equity and banking. Then I went on to watch the consolidation of single family entry level homes by private equity and friends of mine from the apartment industry who happily participated in making housing unaffordable without thinking about it. In 2015 I entered a new world building a scientific research platform that was well ahead of its time. But, again, I was not an insider. I started to see how the money and control worked in u201Cthe scienceu201D too. I didnu2019t give up because I was fortunate to also have an investor who believed in me and also saw what was happening. We pivoted during Covid and brought our unique probiotics to market with years of solid science. Stepped in to the Meta/Google and eventually Amazon monopolies and have seen their u201Cmafiau201D business models. It is very difficult though not impossible for a small company to gain traction. The 10 companies in probiotics at the top of all search and ads are part of the PE/capital elite and spend millions of dollars a month in ads. Some are even buying my company name in targeted search. I could go on but I wonu2019t. Thank you for making people aware and also for making people aware of BiotiQuest. In 2017 we bought a farm so we could grow our own food. Wise advice. u2764uFE0F
We all love Martha.
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Excellent article!! This perfectly explains the psyop we’ve been going through for decades which has now reached crescendo level as far as I am concerned. And most people, when I mention the word psyop, don’t even know what that means!! I shared this and asked everyone to do the same. People must read this to understand what’s been happening to us right under our noses!
Thank you for such a well written accounting of globalism in America.
just out of curiosity, do you know what apocalypse means?
*Apo-kalyptein*u2014that is, the unveiling of hidden things. If you previously believed that COVID-19 came from a spoiled, deep-fried bat, you now know that work had been going on for twenty years right near your home. So, you have discovered something hidden that was right before your eyes.
All of this is true. And yet I struggle to stay positive and focus on “What CAN I DO RIGHT NOW?” in my own little personal life… (I cannot change the world – I only have control over my tiny little universe in Tennessee.)
In the past, I have been an armchair warrior for years, listening to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, feeling so patriotic and superior in my knowledge of “American History” and beliefs about our “divinely inspired government”. Now, however, I am embarrassed by that. I now realize that most of what I have been taught is a LIE! It is VERY SHOCKING and DISALUSIONING!!!!! I realized that many of us have been totally duped. UGH! And now I think – OMEGA! Where were these “CONSERVATIVE ICONS” when the government (that we/they so loved and defended) was destroying our constitutional rights? Where WERE they when businesses were being shut down; our precious troops were being forced-vaccinated, and children were not allowed to attend school? I was one of the grandparents who gave up a year of my life to attend “FRICKING ZOOM FIRST GRADE” with my granddaughter! The entire thing was so stupid, frustrating, and dystopian! But I would do anything for her – just to get through it. This was my first clue that both Democrats and Republicans were on the same side and that they did not give a SHIT about us. This was mind blowing. But I must go on. MY FAMILY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING – AND THEIR SURVIVAL. Nothing else matters. Would live the thoughts of those of you who had similar experiences.
I was such a good little consumer of MSM and democrat baloney. Now I am embarrassed and ashamed. A.nd, yes all we can control are ourselves and maybe some family
Thank you! On both sides – we were duped. Time to come together on important issues! We are sisters!!!!
Gigi – I feel the same way – that I’ve been feed a bunch of lies all my life. It’s very frustrating to know the truth.
Here’s a great book on the subject.
I bought the color version (not black-n-white) written by James W. Lee before “they” killed him for telling the truth.
It’s a big book so the font is easy on the eyes, easy to read.
“Nothing is True, Everything is a Lie”, published May 2022
For sale on Amazon, couldn’t find it on Barnes & Noble:
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Lie-Nothing-True-Color/dp/B0B1K511PN/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&sr=1-3
Thank you Susie! I will check it out! All the best to you.
You’re meant to minister about Jesus and his Father just like Jesus taught us. Read Jesus’ prayer to his Father at John 17 to understand all he wishes for us.
dog has diarhea for days so off we go on a Saturday to urgent care. VCA a nationwide vet.
Had the experience that was the personification of enshittification. the cause of the diarrhea was never identified but was likely from a dewormer 2nd dose earlier. I am now $1,200.00 poorer.
My neighbor’s dog was sick. She took it to the vet and vet said she wouldn’t even touch the dog until dog had a current rabies shot.
So neighbor immediately paid for the shot into that poor little sickly dog. The vet happily jabbed a painful needle into a sick dog.
Then the vet checked the dog and announced dog is dying, not going to make it.
Neighbor paid an extra $488 to put dog to sleep by injection that same day.
Neighbor maybe should have just kept the dog at home – no shots, no pain. Just keep dog safe and comfortable during it’s last days on earth.
That’s how I’d like to go.
Sounds about right. That dumb people think humans or animals need jabs instead of relying on God’s design is something I cannot reconcile.
I live in Oregon. Recently the vets started putting up signs in the front office saying that if the dog is not current on a rabies shot (which should be good for life) that they will not see the dog til it is current. And, yes I am currently trying to figure out a work around since my dog is almost 10.
I quit vets back in 2008, except for a wholistic vet I had for a few years until she retired. I am of the belief that we, our pets & other animals, all of us, come into this world alone and we leave by ourselves. We each have our own individual journey we’re on. We all have to go through the process of “death” (the real us never dies, just this shell we inhabit temporarily). I believe allowing (ourselves and) our pets to complete their journeys without western medical intervention is the most respectful, loving way I can support them. I recently had a cat who lived to be 23.5 yrs old who died peacefully at home without vet interference.
Diane – You are very wise.
I don’t have any pets, but if I did and they needed help, I would choose a holistic vet for them, just as I choose holistic care for myself.
So pushing the rabies shot is nationwide maybe?
They are giving toxic shots to every living being.
Some vets are now as bad as some doctors. Just doing it for the money, no genuine love for the patient.
It’s possible to find caring doctors and dentists, etc., but it takes some searching.
I am widowed (thanks to the shots) and 70. I am putting together a contingency plan for my last day on this planet. I am healthy ( no shots ) and hopefully that is a long way off.
Atlandea- I’m sorry for your loss.
The contingency plan – is it something like, “If I’m in the hospital and dying, take me out to the beach, then home for my favorite meal with friends and family.”
I should probably write up something like that as I too, am an older woman.
Thank you for the idea.
I found this very upsetting. We have to advocate for our voiceless pets. No decent vet would give a rabies vax to an ailing pet as their system is already stressed. Please be mindful at the vet that many are owned by larger corporations, and profit comes first. Don’t be pushed into decisions in an emotional situation. Your poor neighbor was emotionally bullied into both a rabies vax (yes they last for life) and was put on the spot to have their poor dog put down there and then. How horrible! All the more reason to get comfortable with DMSO and Chlorine Dioxide, and heal your pets at home.
Sunshine – My neighbor told me what happened a few days after his death. She loved that little white furry dog so much, had him for about 14 years. He didn’t jump on us or bark. He was just a doll.
In order to live in our mobile home park, dogs must have all their shots so I’m sure he already had his rabies shot.
My neighbor is from the Philippines. Maybe they do things differently there.
She didn’t have a regular vet in town. She took him to an urgent care vet down the street since he was having spasms like a stroke, she said. And he didn’t want to eat very often.
I agree with what you said about DMSO and chlorine dioxide.
I lived in The Villages in Florida for about 2 years as a renter. You may know that as the largest retirement community in the US. Anyway, the developer built homes exactly like you described. The shittiest everything from appliances to flooring to cabinetry etc. Such poor quality that many just tossed it out after they moved in and upgraded everything. So that 400K home quickly became 450K or more
That sounds like many of the apartments I rented over the years – just cheap and basic ugliness.
I recently bought a 1970s mobile home and love being a homeowner because I can now bring in a quality Speed Queen washing machine, a new kitchen sink and countertops.
I no longer have to settle for what the owner has provided to its renter.
Simple is better.. I have lived in the same house in Tennessee for 42 years. Almost getting to be too much. Just curious where do you live? II am so interested in the simpler lifestyle! But love Chattanooga and could never leave. All the best to you!,
When the Globalist Billionaire class almost all agree that the world must be depopulated, this is what you get and there is no turning it around when they are all in it together. Their target population level is 1-2 billion people maximum by 2050 or before. Have a nice day!
The demographic trends are inexorable. Population worldwide will decrease. Within two decades and thereafter
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Dear Robert
Excellent article, well almost…
“The psychopaths never will, which is why they must be identified, removed from power, and held to account. Until then, the enshittification continues.”
Yet, you don’t ever mention or identify the psychopaths that are overwhelmingly responsible.
If you can’t name the enemy of humanity, you will lose every time.
Demons
Moral Party Platform Section One
u201CWe know that they are lying,
they know that they are lying,
they even know that we know they are lying,
we also know that they know
we know they are lying too,
they of course know that we certainly know
they know we know they are lying too as well,
but they are still lying.
In our country,
the lie has become not just moral category,
but the pillar industry of this country.u201D
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
https://MoralParty.com/Demons
Mark
THIS IS DEFINITELY GOD’S JUDGEMENT ON THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY FOR US IN AMERICA AS A CHRISTIAN NATION. I have a feeling, after lots of study of eschatology, that we have to hang on for dear life, with perseverance, like never before. Christians need to repent and turn back to God with real sincerity because God is fulfilling prophecy. God is sovereign so He does exactly as He has said He will and no one can alter that. Christians can know that we need not fear those who can kill the body but should fear God who can kill the soul, send it to everlasting torment. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
We need to know who/what is responsible for devouring the whole world, as said in Daniel 7. That was specifically revealed in the Protestant Reformation,1517, and get this! all Christians knew the answer for 3 centuries before we were lied to, again, by the jesuits. This is well known but only if you read the history, study the bible deeply and the original Westminster Confession of Faith, 1646, the Belgic confession of Faith[ original] because the originals were modified [recently, in the 1900’s] to keep the true info about the antichrist/false prophet out of these documents. All the modern teaching of eschatology is FALSE. It is based on jesuit writings [from 1585] which were rejected by the famous Synod of Dort but resurrected in 1800, by Darby and Irving, Preachers. These false teachings of Futurism are the popular beliefs now, based on , not the biblical scriptures proving themselves, but on Ribera’s speculations, which have forever kept all eyes off ROME. The eschatology of the Protestant Reformers is the correct one because it uses scripture to prove scripture and uses history to show the fulfillments of prophecies as we proceed throughout history! This is how we see God’s true words fulfilled and we can count on Him always in His faithfulness. It is good to read and meditate on 2Thessalonians 2 where we see that this all began long ago, as Paul says, and that the man of sin is found sitting on throne in God’s temple, calling himself god on earth. That all those who do not love the truth God will send them strong delusion so they will believe lies and not be saved.
The old testament is history and shows how sinfully evil man is and how they rarely get it right, even when pushed to the limit, except when God intervenes, by His mercy!!!! This is the testament of our need for the Savior God provided in Jesus Christ! NOW WE CAN SEE CLEARLY, AS THOSE DID IN THE PAST, THAT MAN NEEDS GOD AND NEEDS THE SAVIOR, BECAUSE LIFE IS EXTREMELY BAD/DEADLY W/O HIM. So every pope of Rome is the antichrist/false prophet for the time he sat on that throne. It is the seat of the papacy, the Little Horn of Daniel7 which is devouring the whole world. If you know any history at all, you might know that Rome destroys all she touches. Just look at the history of So. America, Central America and Mexico and you can see this. Then there is the rest of it too.
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How do men feel about the uglification of women?
Is it now difficult for you to find adequate wife material – a natural beauty who is respectful of her body, who as your wife would be a positive role model to your children?
I’m sick of seeing ugly women everywhere I go.
Examples of voluntary female uglification:
A big metal, or TWO big metal rings through their nostrils. Don’t the boogers dirty it all up?
Harm to the eyeballs – paying someone to shoot black dye into the whites.
Tattoos all over the body. When even OLD ladies are getting tattoos, that means it’s no longer cool.
Tattoos on the face that she can’t hide during job interviews or when meeting your family.
Piercings on the tongue, lips, nose, above eyebrows, anywhere on the face.
Destroying the natural charm of the beautiful blonde, redhead, or brunette hair, by adding unnatural colors of pink, blue, green, purple, etc.
…………Did I miss anything?………….
Totally agree!
here an answer, by the good old RIP Robin:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3BBNwrCrfG8
Mejbcart – Thank you for the short video clip.
My opinion – If we need a hole drilled in our tongue and a piece of steel poked through it in order to have pleasurable sex, we’re not doing it right.
Haha – Robin Williams was a hoot but I don’t think he was following “their” demands at the end. I think they killed him and called it suicide…………He was a great entertainer, one of my favorites.
It was a clean kill by the psychiatrist who put him on at least five psych meds that predisposed to suicide and violence and shortened lifespans.
he was and still is my favorite ‘joker’, that’s why I’ve put that link, of course not as a serious answer, but just to be reminded of how brainwashing will make the young people to, well sorry to say, morons.
And yes, he clearly was a victim of the medical cartel, despite of knowing it and joking about it many times.
Ok, but when was the last time men were taking care of themselves? I must have missed that.
Lulu – I was just picking on girls here. I remember when women took some effort to look pretty and pulled together. It wasn’t that long ago – the 1980s maybe.
I’m sure you all have seen the women out in public thinking it’s okay to wear pajama bottoms, tops, and bedroom slippers.
I saw a woman wearing an attractive pink bathrobe over her sloppy whatever shopping at the grocery store the other day. I almost went over to her to give a compliment and ask where she bought it, but I didn’t.
Lulu – I guess we could look at the dudes, too. But I still know a lot of men who take an effort to shower, etc, before they leave their homes.
On the other hand, some women have gone completely downhill – from possibly pretty to just downright scary-looking. And that’s okay with me. In comparison, it makes me look better, right?
I apply makeup, do something with my hair and try to match my shoes and purse to my outfit. It’s not that hard to do.
Attitude?
Tom – Oh, yes. I don’t date women so the men could probably speak better than me about women’s attitude.
Itu2019s a new word to add to my eyeopening vernacular shock tactics , when times trying to use lesser words fail.
I recently discovered Tartarian architecture and totally respect and admire how that society was so advanced that they created beauty in their healing buildings.
They did NOT build quickly or cheaply just to get it done.
Be careful, Tartaria is another psyop. Didn’t happen the way They are pushing it. Guy Anderson is a shill who came out of nowhere. Too bad, sounded nice.
Hello Tom,
There’s also a big money-making youtube channel, My Lunch Break, that is very convincing.
And yes, I have seen Guy Anderson’s interviews on Youtube.
Question – If the Tartarians weren’t part of our true history, who created all those beautiful palaces?
Can you refer me to a more accurate website or channel?
Jason Breshears on Archaix did a utube recently. “Tartaria came out of nowhere recently, including other shills. He bought all of Anderson’s books, destroyed their content, no bibliographies, fabricated history, cut and past content, Guy even claimed he had spoken with Breshears, which Breshears denied vehemently, calling him a narcisistical liar. Ended the video by saying “I can’t believe I wasted time on this s_it.
There were beautiful structures in the early Rennaissance periods, but none in the area of the Tartars. All AI. Archaix has documented history using unedited books from before 1902, when editing became a big business to erase real history.
Jason explains the excess children as being the explosion of agriculture in the US in the 1800s that brought world dominance in food. More food, more kids, had to ship them west.
Jason doesn’t have faith in the MLB channel either.
I’ll check it out. Thanks.
what?? ‘a 30-year mortgage” Hell no, now you have 50 YEARS to pay off that one house now worth, what, 5 or 10 of them, at the moment of your death, while maybe still owning some shekels..
The 50 year mortgage sounds really awful, but just because you’ve got 50 years to pay off the loan doesn’t mean you have to take 50 years to pay it.
Maybe you’re a young person, newly employed, and you’d like to buy a home. For the first few years the low monthly payments that a 50-year mortgage offers are something you can afford on your salary, which means you can actually buy that house. When your income increases, you are free to make extra payments on the principal and pay off your mortgage as fast as you are able.
When we bought our first home we had a 15 year mortgage (remember those?), but we managed to pay it off in 10 years by being frugal and directing every spare penny to the payments, one of the smarter things we’ve done.
Thank you, Dr. Y, for explaining how this topic is an offshoot of globalist psychopathy. You brilliantly present the Big Picture, allowing us to properly name the enemy.
Quite a piece!
It is evident that some of these trends might be coincidental.
But taken together, all these trends are part of a project of mass destruction.
To put things in perspective, I would say this post is on par with those who, years ago, claimed that COVID originated in a lab.
convid, plandemic, scamdemic, fakedemic
Thank you Robert. Excellent post. Await your next post, hopeful that your trip proves greatly beneficial. You are worth it. Prayers continue.
This is all about Empires, as explained by Simon Dixon on his utube post yesterday, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWe3Ed4pJk, From the American empire to the Technocratic control Grid, with Daniel Estulin.
This is all Investment Bankers having their way, for control and profit, and shittification is just part of the whole strategy. Lots of flack on the net to hide them.
They think of us as expendable and that explains why ethics and quality are not part of their concern.
This is spot on. Craig has a solid understanding of the market and does a great job keeping things focused on strategy rather than hype.
When no fault divorce passed, womenu2019s suicide rates dropped 20%. Some statistics says 30%.
The child poverty rate of divorced families, of which 85% are headed by women, can be attributed to non payment of support. Men are not paying it to the tune of over 50% child support goes unpaid in the US every year.
This equates to arrears at 115 billion (figure from 2019), with average 10 billion unpaid each year.
The problem isnu2019t the divorce causes povertyu2026 itu2019s the men who refuse to pay court ordered child support.
And I donu2019t see how divorce supports your argument. As a physician, I would imagine a drop in suicide rates (plus drop in use of benzodiazepines, common for married women for several decades before no fault divorce) would be considerably salient as those are improved health outcomes.
And the divorce argument is an outlier when looking at other categories you present . So it does come across personal, as itu2019s the only point made thatu2019s gendered, especially when stating Reaganu2019s first wife wrongly accused him of mental cruelty.
Odds are very high indeed he was, as emotional and psychological abuse is quite commonly cited as an issue, and I imagine a man who drove trickle down economics (main driver in enshittification via policies, deregulation, etc) and gendered language like u201Cwelfare queensu201D most certainly is a very unpleasant man behind closed doors.
Furthermore only 17 states have pure no fault. 33 states have both fault and no fault as a choice.
If your argument on enshittifucation is wealth being hoarded by a select few which results in poverty, poor products etc, then maybe your point is salientu2026.as divorced men hoard wealth by not paying child support and refusing to parent equitably, hoarding the mothers resources of time, money and energy.
“can be attributed to non payment of support.” I am unable to measure the extent to which this is true, but I imagine that it largely is. At the same time, it skips consideration of the fact that two households inevitably cost more to run than a single one does unless one or both of the two maintain a dramatically lower standard of living.
My parents divorced when I was a junior in college. they had 5 kids. They may have been happier apart, but it destroyed out family and had devastating consequences for us. Divorce trades one set of problems for another. My mother regretted the divorce. She bought into the whole “kick the bum out” mentality of the 70’s while most of her friends worked it out and then enjoyed grandchildren with their spouses. My parents both re-married and it was a strain on everyone. She recently died and we kids have been talking about it. So sad.
Encouraging to see that you included u201Cpsychopathyu201D as a component of Enshitification.
Maybe mincing words, but Primary Sociopathy may be the better term, reserving u201Cpsychopathyu201D for the more extreme, often physically violent primary sociopaths (Hannibal Lecter, etc).
Regardless, thanks for using u201Cpsychopathyu201D because until we realize and start addressing the fact that ~4% of humans are PRIMARY SOCIOPATHS – have ZERO conscience – we can not and will not understand the root pathology of Enshitification – AND the bio-logical basis of u201Cevil.u201D
There is so much in this article that I agree with. One exception is the blaming of increased divorce rates on the introduction of no fault divorce. The system in which an unsuccessful marriage could only be terminated by at least one party building a case against the other caused massive emotional stresses, not only to the parties involved but also to innocent children and families. That damage sometimes ruined lives. Getting out of a marriage mistake or a pairing which grows into conflict rather than compatibility should not be so hard to end.
As one who has lived through the more honest early to mid 1990’s to the exploitive and decaying society we now see, the many examples given are insightful and remind us of values we should seek to re-establish with the aim of nourishing the mind and body, and building new institutions committed to improvement of humanity’s living standards.
Such a good summery and I agree so strongly.
What about the Health and Safety “shit” we all have to live with?
Excellent article, brilliantly articulates what we all know to be true, and experience every day. It is all so thoroughly depraved.
Sums it up very wellu2026It always goes back to Human Natureu2026
u201CFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.u201D
1 Timothy 6:10
u201CFor although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.u201D
Romans 1:21-23
“Furniture tells the same story. A 1940s oak table survives 80 years and 3 moves. Its particleboard replacement sags within 5 years and fails at the first disassembly.”
Meanwhile, people sell real hardwoord furniture that will outlast us all on Facebook marketplace for a fraction of what the particle board crap (assembly required!) costs. Choose well.
It’s disorienting when an otherwise excellent and compelling article must stoop to profanity and especially profanity depicting processes that are irrelevant. Byproducts of human detoxification have no connection with the topic discussed here. Human evil – on the other hand – does. One can only wonder at the eternal deficits of human nature, that statements of truth do not move us sufficiently unless they have been augmented with the puerile, prepubescent fascination with bodily functions. It’s so tiresome.
Dearest Robert Yoho! This piece was so brilliantly and factually written that it almost took my breath away! Thank you for spending the time to articulate all the facts concerning the suffering we have all experienced at the hands of the psychopaths! And I applaud you as well for including solutions to the problems they have created as well! While reading the article I became acutely aware of the feelings of sadness and demoralization I had been covering up in myself by doing my best to keep a stiff upper lip and a positive attitude while dealing with the senerios you have described! My request to humanity is for all of us to become involved in creating such powerful solutions to these problems that the psychopaths will have to give up! I believe that bringing things out in the open as you have done in writing this article will take away much of their power! I hope as many people as possible will share this article! You are truly a blessing to us all Dr.Yoho! Thank you for giving us a way to reach others that we can all relate to Sir!!!!u2665uFE0F
My family farms and ranches for generations. We have moved from ANIMAL HUSBANDRY (actually caring for the animals, because they take care of you) to trying to extract as much profit as possible per animal. There is no relationship with the consumer or the animal. Everything is “enshitified” due to the distance between consumer and producer. And no one really cares. That is the most disturbing part to me. Just extract the money. Everything is a transaction.
Love this post…and as a technologist, a nature lover (I chose spirituality over organized religion as well, Mother Nature is a she), an asexual, and somebody who does things for the love of doing them…lots to unpack here. Monetarily, I’m lucky enough to be an only child, so when the parental units find their path to the Otherworld, then I’ll be fine. Not all can say that in this wasteland that is Midgard, now. As somebody who is visually impaired, and so making it to a store to go and buy the things I need is untenable in most situations, so online retailers are essential for those with disabilities that enforce an electronic lifestyle. Also, I find that smart devices also enhance my way of living in light of the fact that if say, my thermostat connects to my phone, I can read the temperature of the room, and adjust the heat up/down. When it’s just a dumb wall terminal, that’s harder for somebody who relies on assistive technology for most things.
As an asexual, I don’t feel sexual attraction to anyone, so I never got caught out being lonely. Am I wrong? the way I understand it, sexual orientation is not a choice. So how can we fix the population dilemma in a way where people can live the single life (if that’s what they prefer/they are asexual( without destroying families? Those who don’t want/can’t have/aren’t good with kids, shouldn’t be forced to care for them. Because then we could ultimately go backwards trying to fix this. That’s my personal fear, actually, that we end up enforcing things, like it was back in the 1800’s or something and then everybody loses. So I’m very curious to hear your personal solutions to the problems of inshitification without essentially going backwards. I think that online retail, smart devices, and everything else is excellent, though if done right. How do we do it right?
Turn Hunting Down Globalists into a SPORT. Cancel baseball, basketball, football and Hockey until all of The Globalists guilty of Crimes Against Humanity are EXTINCT… #DepopulateTheDepopulators2026