@virtualbri@mastodon.online It's like how the slop machines can't feed off their own output, otherwise everything collapses. These parasites need fresh businesses for their parasitic model to work. You can't juice a company that's already been enshittified, and almost¹ no one is going to buy the corpse of one of these enshittified brands. My only regret is the number of other people will lose their jobs because of these parasites. — ¹ We have seen one or two passion projects buy up a brand corpse in an attempt to restore their former glory, but they're very much the exception. The biggest one I'm aware of is the sewing pattern company, I think it's Simplicity? And basically it was a former employee who only really did it to get her hands on the specialized printing equipment for the paper patterns to keep that part of the business alive even as they pivot to print on demand patterns as well.