Many make it about socialism or capitalism, as if that's the great issue, and indirectly it may be. There are enough blog posts just like this such that you have market saturation, and it doesn't really provide anything new.

Many of the people I know have a different take about what causes it that takes a less divisive path. Boom bust cycles.

Some simple questions like, what causes boom bust cycles? Why do essentially the same graphs show up in places like the S-adoption curve, and business growth curve, and ponzi's.

I think that's a more important take because it goes to the incentives driving a structure forward. You can do something about money-printing, you can't really do anything about people who can't change their beliefs regardless of the reality (on either side).

The main reason people break the vow probably is that they have investors (not just the Carl Icahn types, but rank-and-file employees too). When the numbers for the next quarter stagnate too many times, the pressure apparently makes enshittification irresistible.

We need software tools tracking all rich people now: who has sold out in the past, what they are working on now, who he has partnered with in the past, constantly pointing to and promoting underdog alternatives, all the dark patterns they implemented, all the lies they have said publicly, as much off the books recording of their batshit ideas as possible