Kush Bisen
Great topic to write about, and very well done with the explanation of enshittification in the first 60% half of the book. I really enjoyed the tech aspect of the book, as indeed it's a grave problem especially calling out the VC culture for the “innovation” it does. However, the second 40% was such a hard read to go through, the tech based enshittification is long gone in this aspect, and the political leaning of the author is way too obvious. I mean I don't have a problem with an author being political, but if you keep hitting 10/10 talking points of a “side”, it makes me take you less seriously as it seems to be very ideologically driven. But it seems that the author planned to extend “enshittification” as a general societal term, and a catch all phrase with most of the things going bad, even beyond tech. I felt like that positioning of enshittification was very forced, and it worked well with tech and the induced impact on labor in the sector but apart from that, eh not really sure. Moreover the law specificity, and policies are interesting to know but too distracting and not the point when read as someone not in the Canadian/US bubble for example. The author's tone felt very condensating as well at times.
The story kept building and I couldn't feel that it was going somewhere fun, I eventually started reading something else which was more fun and then didn't pick this up. Maybe I pick it up in the future?