Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Doctorow, Cory

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*Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It* is a manifesto-style nonfiction work addressing how the internet and digital platforms have degraded, becoming exploitative rather than empowering.

Doctorow argues that many once-promising services now follow a predictable arc: they attract users with a strong value proposition, lock in both users and business customers, then degrade the experience as they shift focus to extracting value.

He discusses real-world examples — including algorithmic abuses, monopolistic behaviour in tech firms, and the ways in which users are trapped in exploitative systems.

Importantly, he doesn’t stop at diagnosis: Doctorow proposes ways the “Great Enshittening” might be reversed or mitigated, suggesting paths toward rebuilding healthier digital ecosystems.

"In his account of the Great Enshittening, Doctorow offers a masterly polemic, its scope so sweeping that it does, finally, seem to explain every pungent odor wafting from Silicon Valley." — Dan Piepenbring

"[Doctorow] certainly knows how to make an idea memorable. You could not ask for a clearer, more ambitious or better-written business book than this one… Doctorow dese
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