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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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The correct title would be the "enshittification of FAAMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google) tier tech jobs" , because anyone that never worked on any of those companies can attest that having a miserable work life was the rule, not the exception.