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I don’t know that we can. One aspect of enshitification I don’t see talked about is how the middle of markets are disappearing. Economic forces seem to push goods to both ends of the spectrum, either super cheap or super expensive, with no ability to navigate middle quality for very long. Most people seem to shop with price as their first concern, those who don’t are willing to pay more for certain qualities/features. But since everyone may be shopping for different features, now volume is low and price necessarily needs to be high. I suspect this is unavoidable.



The car market does not work like that, and it is an important market.




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