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“My central claim is that a brand's quality tracks who it answers to, and that this, rather than greed, is what explains decline. Founders answer to the product and to a name that is usually their own. Outside capital answers to a return. Both want money, so greed is the one trait founders and financiers reliably share, which is exactly why it explains nothing about why some brands keep their quality and others rot.
The variable is time horizon and audience. An owner who will be there to collect a reputation's future earnings protects it. One who plans to exit, or who answers only to a margin target, spends it down, because a reputation is a depletable asset and the consequences for depleting it arrive only after they are gone.
The purpose here is to set that process down once, in full, as a reference. What follows defines the lifecycle a brand moves through as it changes hands, catalogs the specific mechanisms by which a reputation gets converted into cash, and explains why consumers usually cannot react fast enough to stop it. It ends with a short field guide for telling, before you buy, which side of the line a brand sits on. The evidence for each claim is the set of investigations this newsletter has already run, linked throughout and gathered at the end.”
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/the-mechanisms-of-enshittification
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Service with a grudge.
The Verizon-affiliated store here in my small town no longer carries any accessories for the Apple iPhone 12.
A phone I bought in December of 2020.
My response: "Lady I got stuff in my freezer that's older than that."
And they wonder why we hate them. *
* Note to self: Defrost that turkey pepperoni soon.
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Read article about why modern things are low quality:
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/the-bewildering-phenomenon-of-declining-quality.html
It lefts me with a strange taste of smth like "victimblaming" — like, I know the fabric of my clothes (cotton and linen); I dunno change clothes, electronics and furniture if they are "out of fashion". And a lot of ppl around me do the same.
Where are these mythical ppl, who buy fashionable things each 2 years? Where they earn so much money?!
#PlannedObsolescense #DecliningQuality #MassProduction #MiddleClass
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Well, there´s your problem!
(This busted TPS54339E step-down converter would explain why my WD 6TB MyBook decided to die exactly 2 weeks past its 2-year warranty).
Sometimes it's hard not to suspect #PlannedObsolescense - this has happened several times for me, especially with #Seagate and #WD hard drives...
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More good news: Your Power Button Won’t Last Forever. "You’re close to becoming powerless over your phone, and it all has to do with the little “wake” button on its skinny right side."
https://medium.com/s/powertrip/your-power-button-wont-last-forever-dd746d482190 #plannedobsolescense #propietaryhardware