diff --git a/Open Letter to Google.md b/Open Letter to Google.md index fc21991b6..d2248cb91 100644 --- a/Open Letter to Google.md +++ b/Open Letter to Google.md @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Sure, [[free]] was not in it -- but then again, Google offered a fair deal; we c 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? Are we condemned to [[enshittification]]? +Manichean labels like 'good' (googly) or 'evil' (ungoogly) aside, the question is: why do companies degrade over time? (is [[enshittification]]?) 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.