The biggest word of 2024 is a profane critique of capitalism first coined in 2022.
The Macquarie Dictionary, the national dictionary of Australia, has picked enshittification as its word of the year.
Weve all felt this.
Frustrated businessman hitting laptop on fire with hammer.© vm via Getty stock photos.
Google search isfilled with garbage.
The internet is clogged with SEO-farming websites that clog up results.
Facebook is an endless stream ofAI-generated slop.
Zoom wants you to test out its new AI features while youretrying to go into a meeting.
Twitter has become X, and its owner thinkssharing links is a waste of time.
This is all enshittification.
The market demands geometric growth.
Companies want the number to go up.
If youre lucky, theyll sell you the cure.
Most of the time theyre just trying to make a sale.
Writer Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification in an essay aboutAmazon in 2022.
He was talking about what a nightmare its become to shop on the site.
I recently experienced this when buying a new CPU (which is why I reinstalled Windows.)
The processor I wanted, a Ryzen 7 9800x3D, is in high demand.
This is all enshittification.
Doctorow feels it too.
Most of the time, it felt like pushing on a piece of string.
Doctorow said one of the reasons the word caught on was that its a bit naughty.
Not for everyone who uses the word, but thats fine.
Doctorow isnt done spreading the bad word, either.
Theres also a graphic novel and a documentary in the offing, he said.
Doctorow said he does not engage in rawdogging.
at a joint UN/International Cooperatives Association conference, Doctorow said.
After this, hell board two long flights.
First from Tokyo and then to L.A.
I fly with a bag I call the most comfortable man in the sky bag, he said.
Why does everything in Windows 11 think it needs to push a notification to the desktop now?
Sweet universe save me from this tide of enshittification.
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