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Open Letter to Google.md

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 So why become evil, indeed, if you can be good and get away with it? If you know you can make money while offering better than average, while being generous to users and employees? 
 
-Manichean labels like 'good' (googly) or 'evil' (ungoogly) aside, the question is: why do companies degrade over time? (is [[enshittification]]?)
+Manichean labels like 'good' (googly) or 'evil' (ungoogly) aside, the question is: why do companies degrade over time? (is [[enshittification]] unavoidable?)
 
-The answer, I believe, is relatively straightforward: because all systems will tend to degrade with time, as a manifestation of entropy; because of the emergent forces within our social systems that tend to consolidate themselves in hierarchies that risk abusing their positions of power; because things tend not to be, or remain, as good as they seem like they can be.
+The answer, I believe, is on first approximation relatively straightforward and matches that of [[Asimov's classic: because all systems will tend to degrade with time, as a manifestation of entropy; because of the emergent forces within our social systems that tend to consolidate themselves in hierarchies that risk abusing their positions of power; because things tend not to be, or remain, as good as they seem like they can be.
 
 Because of inefficiencies and lack of trust and coordination. Because of [[Moloch]], as some say. If so: it is to help defeat [[Moloch]] and improve human-computer systems that I'm writing this, and that I started building the [[Agora]].