“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”

This is related to societal collapse because the Internet is the modern-day Library of Alexandria, and the way a handful of bug-eyes salamanders constantly enshittify, monetize and control platforms is indicative of a culture that values greed over the accessibility to modern humanity’s collective knowledge.