Damn, that's a depressing Wikipedia article:
It is estimated that around 375,000 great hammerhead sharks alone are traded per year which is equivalent to 21,000 metric tons of biomass. However, most sharks that are caught are only used for their fins and then discarded. The meat of hammerheads is generally unwanted.
#3 is the key I think. Valve's business model is figuring out what their customers want and then providing it to them. Amazon's model is to capture enough market share so they can start the enshitification process.
Careful, Reddit executives will see this and run with it.
I'd be more surprised if there hadn't been a shooting.
I don't know where this particular graph came from, but Richard Dawkins has a whole chapter about strategies for the prisoner's dilemma in his book "The Selfish Gene".
The shotgun pays for itself after only 3 or 4 liquor store hold-ups.
And if they gain a monopoly, they're able to separate their priorities from those of their users. That's when the enshitification begins.
Man, seeing myself in all these memes almost makes me think I could have ADHD. That would be too funny, right? ...right?
Lol, this is like "All Through the House" from Love, Death, and Robots.
Accurate. There's significant overlap between Fediverse managers, developers, and users. Everyone's goals for the platform are always closely aligned.
This is the crossover I need to see.