It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage, with bots accounting for more and more traffic. AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what? Does "the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
I don’t think overthrowing capitalism will solve the problem of botnets and AI enshitification. There are other reasons besides money to manipulate content on the internet - namely, power.
In fact, I might even suggest that one way to overthrow the “capitalist world order” would be to lean into the enshitification.
Imagine life in twenty or thirty years. Today’s children are now all grown up. They are mostly moronic, AI-dependent automatons. Because not many people want to have kids, the U.S. has an increasing aged population. Due to corruption, there’s been no meaningful investment in infrastructure. No manufacturing, no exports, nothing to offer the world.
The snake eats its own tail.