Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Other by Cory Doctorow

Released 7 October 2025

1
Opening Credits / Dedication / Epigraph
0:37
2
Introduction
4:43
3
Part One: The Natural History
6:31
4
Case Study: Facebook
15:21
5
Case Study: Amazon
15:46
6
Case Study: iPhone
13:29
7
Case Study: Twitter
29:00
8
Part Two: The Pathology
26:17
9
Part Three: The Epidemiology
0:50
10
The End of Competion, Part 1
33:40
11
The End of Competion, Part 2
35:34
12
The Death of Competition Kills Regulation, Too
9:52
13
“With an App”
3:34
14
It’s Not Wage Theft If We Do It With an App: Uber’s Algorithmic Wage Discrimination
11:07
15
Reverse‐Centaurs and Chickenization
13:09
16
Twiddling
11:20
17
The End of Self‐Help
44:05
18
The End of Labor Power
5:44
19
Tech Rights Are Worker Rights: Para and Tuyul Apps
16:37
20
The Google Walkouts, Tech Solidarity, and Tech Unions
49:56
21
Rent Seeking and Technofeudalism
35:03
22
Part Four: The Cure
27:59
23
Antitrust Is Back, Baby
24:09
24
Antitrust Under Trump
15:23
25
Bringing Back Regulation
9:28
26
Privacy First
7:59
27
The EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
16:48
28
Administrability
24:08
29
Bringing Back Self‐Help
19:14
30
The Strange Tale of Beeper Mini
14:41
31
Repealing the Law of “Felony Contempt of Business Model”
16:16
32
Restoring Labor
23:27
33
There’s Bad News and There’s Good News
22:42
34
Conclusion: Is Enshittification Just Capitalism?
6:40
35
Acknowledgments
6:03
36
Closing Credits
1:51