The Enshittification of America: How Everything Got Worse While Profits Soared
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Mary Trump Media
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
America's decline isn't just about politics—it's about a growing pattern affecting nearly every part of daily life.
From contaminated water systems and crumbling infrastructure to shrinking airline services, rising corporate profits, AI-generated political propaganda, aggressive responses to public protests, and the explosive growth of energy-hungry data centers, many Americans feel like the quality of life is deteriorating while powerful institutions continue to benefit.
In this video, we examine the phenomenon often called "enshittification" and ask a difficult question:
Is America becoming a country where citizens receive less while paying more?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Danielle Moody sitting on the floor. |
| 0:11.9 | With the guitar, though, you look very old school, late 1960s. |
| 0:16.8 | Very bohemian, hip, free love. |
| 0:39.4 | You know, you're against the man, man. But no, Daniel, you know why Daniel doesn't look bohemian and giving me the 60s vibe? Because she's too pissed. I'm not at all, I'm not at all laid back. Yeah, you're not like that laid back, like classic white stoner. Like, hey, man, you're like, no, no, no, no, no, hey man. |
| 0:40.5 | Get out of my way. |
| 0:49.2 | Also, happy Pride Month to Danielle, my fantabulous co-host and all who are watching for LGBTQ, |
| 0:52.4 | especially in the Maca community, who are closeted. |
| 0:56.1 | Time to come out. Lindsay Graham, come out. Yeah, happy pride, Lindsay. |
| 0:57.8 | Happy pride. |
| 0:59.0 | You know, so yeah, look, Wage put together, |
| 1:04.2 | folks, an incredible rundown today for Democracy-ish. |
| 1:07.9 | And I gotta say, this is probably one of my favorite words that I don't use enough, |
| 1:14.7 | which is enshittification. And, you know, I'll read this and I'll let you like walk us through it. |
| 1:23.0 | But in shittification, it seems like one of those words that like shouldn't really exist, |
| 1:30.9 | but encompasses so much. |
| 1:33.7 | So folks, it was, it is defined in the article in certification is a term coined by tech critic, |
| 1:41.8 | Corey Doctoro in 2023. It describes the process whereby many tech offerings start as |
| 1:48.9 | fun and life-changing, then become useful and then avoidable, often indispensable. But over time, |
| 1:56.6 | the offerings degrade in quality as the extractive ambitions of billionaires trump the interests |
| 2:02.6 | of the ordinary people they were supposedly designed to serve, leading to miserable outcomes. |
| 2:09.5 | What country does that sound like, Waj? |
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