Digital platforms increasingly degrade user experience as corporate incentives prioritize extracting value, engagement, and profit over relevance, fairness, and long-term usefulness.
Colin Murphy: Yes, things are getting worse... and we even have a word for it now
Enshittification describes the detrimental decline of systems like the internet and global affairs, worsened by leaders like Donald Trump, with Ireland facing unique vulnerabilities.
"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."