Saturday, August 22nd, 2026, 3:02 pm
Enshittification is Not Inevitable, It’s a Choice
Filed under: Enshittification as standards lowered.
wrote about 10cc last night. It was a local band that reached international fame and had very creative number-one hits.
By 1974, they had a large enough portfolio to put on a good show on BBC. Despite it being 52 years old, the music has aged well and the talent extends from instruments to vocals (they have both). Earlier today my father agreed with me that music has gotten a lot worse and simpler – and not in the flattering sense of the word “simpler”. He too misses some of the old music.
This music is still available – for those who wish to access it.
We also spoke about the hospitality sector and how competitive it has become (again, not in the good sense of the word “competitive”). He told me that the health club he once managed had in it a member who was the mother of the owner of a local (nearby) hotel and a wide array of similar hotels worldwide. It’s now hard to compete with those “giants”. Back in the 90s the consolidation and ripoff that follows wasn’t so bad.
Prices of things will continue to soar, global warming will make life harder for many, and the media hardly even mentions climate change anymore.
The media too has been subjected to “consolidation”. A lot is now owners by the biggest polluters. Human civilisation does not matter to these people.
