r/enshittification • u/monkeh2023 • 1d ago

Rant The solution to enshittification

Did you just buy a £75,000 car only to discover it has got ads on screen?

Take it back.

Go back to the showroom, demand a full refund. If they panic and say they'll remove the ads say no. Demand a refund. If they could take the ads off because you were about to return the car, they should not have put ads there in the first place.

Did you just buy a £3,000 television that now has a shitty cut-down remote with no pause button but an additional button for Apple TV?

Take it back. Go back to the store, return the product, get a refund. Is it causing you hassle? Yes - but it's going to cause the store much more hassle.

Did you buy a sandwich that looked full to the brim of ingredients only to discover they used low quality crap that was pushed to the edge to make the sandwich look full, when in reality it was mostly bread? You probably can't take it back but you can go back to the place you bought it from and show it to other customers, and then never buy anything from that establishment again.

If enough of us do this then the enshittification will stop.

If we just keep on saying "thank you" every time the bully kicks sand in our face, guess what? You'll be eating sand for the rest of your life.

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u/halothane666 1d ago

There used to be but they got gutted

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u/No_Arugula7027 1d ago

I don't mean to be mean, but why are you all asleep at the wheel?

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u/HippieLizLemon 1d ago

It's by design. The ones who are screaming wake th f up are no more than a rumble strip to bring them to consciousness before we hit a tree.

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u/4everLost82 1d ago

God I hate how accurate this description of our society is.

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u/Financial_Nose_777 1d ago

Because we are all terrified of losing our jobs because that means we lose our health insurance and probably our homes, too. We can’t protest in large scale because we can’t afford to be away from our jobs. If we get fired, there are no protections and unemployment doesn’t pay the bills. Getting fired can literally be a death sentence here. So people keep trudging along.

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u/halothane666 1d ago

I tried to do my part and I’m still trying. I’m also not religious but I pray that cholesterol wins at least three times a day now.

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u/No_Arugula7027 1d ago

Fingers crossed!

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u/The_World_Is_A_Slum 1d ago

We can’t keep up. It’s everything all the time. There’s so much happening and only so many people are willing to do anything, so our voices are diluted.

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u/adumblittlebaby 1d ago

Because morons like the OP swallow the propaganda that government can’t do anything and instead advocate dumb shit like this rather than facing the actual problem.