So forced enshitification it is.

So here’s a scenario:

You started a website, and this website became enormously popular. The company you started to run this website is now worth a couple billion dollars. You’re not an asshole, so you pay your employees generously and take an equal wage for yourself. You weren’t in a rush to grow, so you never took venture capital or became publicly traded.

As the sole owner of that company, you are technically worth a couple billion dollars, but your sellable assets are nowhere near that 15%. How is the law supposed to handle this situation without further making enshitification legally mandatory?

You could simply take their money.

Except this is far from a simple thing to do, since a vast majority of the wealth isn’t money.

For a more realistic option, I think that ending the practice of borrowing against stocks as a method of dodging taxes would go a long way towards getting billionaires to pay their share.

And what separates truth from fact in your mind?

I find that filtering out where you get your news from, and specifically limiting how much you delve into social media discussions about it, definitely helps.

I find that reading headlines from the news wire services (AP, Reuters, etc) helps a lot in getting simple news that doesn’t delve into the clickbait bullshit of other sites. That and I specifically avoid opinion pieces. I got plenty of my own opinions; I don’t need some other assholes opinions too.

This is kind of non-news. It is essentially just an ongoing process that has been occurring since the very first industrial robots were introduced.

Probably. In Canada there’s no Hulu, so all the fox catalog ended up on Disney+.