But when capitalists escape their fears, the alchemical conversion of greed to prosperity fizzles, leaving nothing behind but greed and its comorbidity, enshittification. Google search is in the toilet, getting worse every year, but rather than taking reduced margins and spending more fighting spam, the company did a $80b stock-buyback and fired 12,000 technologists, rather than using that 80 bil to pay their wages for the next twenty-seven years:
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