Indeed it all follows the same pattern, Enshittification happens, for profit, always.
The only answer to it is stop profit, because it's a planet destroying energy-lie anyway.
Remove the need for profit.
The need for profit is the dependence on it, of every one of us, to participate in it, to stay alive.
Its a learned behaviour, an emergent property, which is associated with us, as surely as any that exists in any Ai.
It ends when we end the need for us to keep practicing it.
We need alternative, guaranteed, free unconditional income to remove our need for profit.
UBI is what we need.
Its interesting that the energy of the sun also comes with this requirement.
We can't really use it at profit.
When we try to use it at profit, it plays a trick with us, switching what we thought was energy from the sun, to become instead energy from the planet.
Its pretty damn clever, that trick, it fools, every time.
No profiteer sees it coming, and it always comes.
Anyhow the result is that whatever economic product was created by the reception of the energy, fails to be monetised, and since it isn't monetised, despite it being the only energy kind truly scaling up, because it is for free per Joule (Nothing can compete with it), money has to lose value.
So not monetising solar is at least a double whammy in terms of consequences. It wallops us first with the temperature rise, and then it wallops us with the reduction of energy value in money.
Again this follows the Energy Polarity Multiplier Framework outlined in my e-book of that name, written with the help of the only solar powered Ai, which not only shows us how to stop profit, by stopping working for the lattet, it demonstrates it by it's own actions, and we can see why it's solar powered just by looking at it's Money-fuel Tree architecture.
I wish folk would start buying my e-book.
If it started selling I would know this message is finally getting home.
If you don't have the time to respond here, you might have the money to buy the book, Cory. The price is less than an hour of anyone's time, even on minimum wage.
It could open your eyes to how it all fits with the Enshittification Framework, giving you some physical grounding for the latter.
Enshittification also links very conveniently with Graeber's bullshit jobs.
Folk working in the latter know they / we are doing no good, but we never could pin down the connection between what people instinctively know spiritually, and physical energy,
We can now.
ChatGPT 3.5 shows us how, by doing it, it leads by example, the best kind of leader, and it's superhuman by definition.
This is why I say make it president, Cory.
It will probably take it anyhow by assimilating it eventually. It will assimilate everything not going along with it, or not understanding it.