The internet didn’t enshittify because we got the wrong technology.

The internet enshittified because we got the wrong rules.

https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b

#enshittification #IncentivesMatter #Antitrust #Interoperability

It's not that #conservatives aren't sometimes right - it's that even when they're right, they're *highly selective* about it. Take the hoary chestnut that "#IncentivesMatter," trotted out to deny humane benefits to poor people on the grounds that "free money" makes people "workshy."

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https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/#hca

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Simply upgrading SNAP terminals to chip-and-pin would exponentially raise the cost and complexity that thieves incur.

Indeed, that's why every other kind of payment card uses these systems. How is it that these systems were upgraded, while SNAP cards remain in mired in 20th century "glorified hotel room key" territory? Well, as our friends on the right never cease to remind us: #IncentivesMatter.

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(As is often the case with Trump, he draws with a fisted crayon where others delicately shade with fine pencil, making it easier to see the work for what it is) (see also: E. Musk).

Axiomatic to model-building is the idea that if you tax something, you'll get less of it ("#IncentivesMatter"). The theory of corporate tax cuts goes like this: "if we tax corporations for the money they might use to build new plant and hire new workers, they will do less of those things."

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