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

Tracklist

• 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

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Release credits

• Cory Doctorow
  producer, spoken vocals
• Devin Washburn
  illustration
• Gabrielle de Cuir
  audio director
• John Taylor Williams
  mastering, editor, mix

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

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  7 October 2025