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
0:39
2
Introduction
4:39
3
Part One: The Natural History
6:27
4
Case Study: Facebook
15:12
5
Case Study: Amazon
15:42
6
Case Study: iPhone
13:27
7
Case Study: Twitter
28:58
8
Part Two: The Pathology
26:16
9
Part Three: The Epidemiology
0:48
10
The End of Competion, Part 1
33:36
11
The End of Competion, Part 2
35:33
12
The Death of Competition Kills Regulation, Too
9:50
13
“With an App”
3:32
14
It’s Not Wage Theft If We Do It With an App: Uber’s Algorithmic Wage Discrimination
11:04
15
Reverse‐Centaurs and Chickenization
13:06
16
Twiddling
11:17
17
The End of Self‐Help
44:01
18
The End of Labor Power
5:42
19
Tech Rights Are Worker Rights: Para and Tuyul Apps
16:34
20
The Google Walkouts, Tech Solidarity, and Tech Unions
49:52
21
Rent Seeking and Technofeudalism
35:00
22
Part Four: The Cure
27:57
23
Antitrust Is Back, Baby
24:06
24
Antitrust Under Trump
15:18
25
Bringing Back Regulation
9:25
26
Privacy First
7:56
27
The EU’s Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act
16:44
28
Administrability
24:05
29
Bringing Back Self‐Help
19:10
30
The Strange Tale of Beeper Mini
14:38
31
Repealing the Law of “Felony Contempt of Business Model”
16:11
32
Restoring Labor
23:24
33
There’s Bad News and There’s Good News
22:39
34
Conclusion: Is Enshittification Just Capitalism?
6:38
35
Acknowledgments
5:59
36
Closing Credits
1:48
37
Publisher Notes
0:33