I got farther than you, but felt all of those things didn't really improve or feel as fun. The weapon breaking is annoying. I feel like it's too quick.
Edit: I eventually gave up after the 'first' boss (I know you can do them any order, but water blight is generally considered the easier one to do first).
Except due to the new usage one now has to basically define it to give it the correct context. It's lost its power to be used and immediately understood. If what you say is true, it cannot be used efficiently to why it was coined.
And pretending it's not suddenly being used because of Doctorow is naive.
Except the language is weaker as we've lost the ability to transfer one idea easily because people like re-using the word because they think it makes them sound educated on the topic. It's being used because of Doctorow, not because of any other reason. So I call bullshit on it just being grammatical.
Recruitment is low, but a large reason for that is their standards are kind of high relative to our youth. Less than 1 in 4 aged 17-24 are expected to be able to qualify.
Visible tattoos? Sorry. ADHD medication in the past six months? Need a waiver. Test positive for weed? Sorry. Not many can even pass the fitness tests anymore.
That being said, recruitment isn't the only measure for a strong military. You could very well be correct in your conclusion, but I wouldn't base it solely on that.
Except it means nothing in that usage. Some people ran with it. Others decided to not be ridiculous and just apply it without rhyme or reason. Outside the Fediverse, it's nearly unknown. Inside the fediverse, when it's misused, it's usually in a very obvious and uncritical manner. It is still commonly used properly.
Don't take the power away from words just because you literally like the word itself. It's immature.
If you use it to apply to all unpopular corporate decisions, it's no longer powerful and doesn't have any meaning.
The general driving force is different though. It's a process that involves devaluing a service by basically commoditizing two forces against each other. Simply dropping value-added features to save money is just the race to the bottom.
Dropping a feature is the equivalent of charging for extra BBQ sauce packets. It's not the same driving force like Instagram where they play two forces against each other. Like the way Google has been going with shoving way too many ads in there. That is a different motivation because it's valuing one customer at the expense of another. Something like dropping free service XYZ is just cutting costs.
The word is getting overplayed and it feels like everyone has the same word-a-day calendar and are now trying to use it as much as possible.
It's more impactful and retains meaning if we keep it succinct instead of just the equivalent of "an unpopular decision that saves money to increase shareholder value". It's all about recognizing you are a product as well as a user. It's that the services don't have an incentive to serve you. Its just so much more meaningful as long as we don't remove all of that meaning to just show we don't like corporatism.
I just googled it. It seems to be the mortgage lock-in effect that's the number one driving factor for lack of homes. Mortgage rates are too high so people aren't selling. They do mention construction under-building, but it's not really the main cause. Also in 2021, California passed a law allowing single family homes to become up to 4-family dwellings... oh... this lead to a bunch of companies coming in and paying cash for homes to convert to rental units. And there's actually been a lot of push to make it easier to build more and further deregulate and that seems to be having none of your expected outcomes.... because it's not really the biggest reason. And again, it has even had some of the opposite due to zoning deregulation.
I'm trying to wrap my head around "invagination". Like I'm pretty sure I get the general gist of the meaning, but it's really making me realize I don't think I know the etymology of the root word at all...
Tbf, if a job posting like that goes out, that is not a company you want to work for. It's a lot more rare for that scenario. The more problematic situation is a bunch of companies simply wanting years of experience but for entry level jobs with entry level pay.
You understand that the better version of your argument is better regulation, not less regulation, right? That's really the core of my point. Plus, the items you mentioned still have other benefits that need to be weighed against (and lack of contractors isn't even a regulation, it's a possible outcome of some other regulation, which is probably the licensing, but that is even closer to the whole FDA argument I made, and let's be honest, you needed more items for your list).
Edit: and it being a seller's market is absolutely caused by demand for purchasing, so in the end it's still landlords fault. They're converting too many non-rentals to rentals. They're buying up houses at high costs because it becomes more affordable with more units, therefore driving pricing. It truly is the biggest influence in purchase price. Regulating that would absolutely have a far better effect than deregulating other areas (which still sounds more like they just need better regulation).
But their entirely different processes. One is exploiting one market vs the other. Here it wouldn't necessarily be exploiting a market, but destroying value of a free service. If you're worried about personal info being the exploitation, it's going to be very limited and likely already in place. An account structure is usually more the first move toward monetizing the service directly and enabling the ability between free and premium services. That's still shitty, but for entirely different reasons. So I just don't like seeing the original word lose all meaning whatsoever beyond its root word. It basically guts it of all of its nuance and importance and just turns it into a noun form of taking something and making it shitty. We don't need to do that.
I mean, food can be made cheaper with less regulation too, that doesn't mean that's the right answer or even a good answer. Most of that stuff you mentioned has been in place for a long time. The more recent blowup in cost isn't directly related.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. The housing market is suffering due to "real estate investors" just buying out and renting houses that used to be non-rental. Investment is driving up the cost of housing significantly. There's going to be a reckoning as wages are kept down and mortgages keep going up though. Eventually rent to cover mortgages are going to be too high and it's just going to push out the small time real estate investors, and either more companies will move in or there'll be a small drop in pricing.
I got farther than you, but felt all of those things didn't really improve or feel as fun. The weapon breaking is annoying. I feel like it's too quick.
Edit: I eventually gave up after the 'first' boss (I know you can do them any order, but water blight is generally considered the easier one to do first).