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		red-iron-pine 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cognitive Dark Forest enshittification is a hip, tech-bro term to mean "rent seeking" and is nothing new

chongli 36 days ago [–]

Rent-seeking is too general of a term. You can rent-seek just by raising prices.

Enshittification specifically means deliberately making the product worse as a rent-seeking strategy.

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