>I fully agree. Additionally, stock price is driven also by expectations of further growth, which in order to keep happening, something's gotta give so it must chip away at quality of the final product too (cheaper materials, cheaper manufacturing, etc) with a consequent enshittification.

???

You're omitting some steps here. While "enshittification" probably happens to some extent, it's unhinged to suggest that's the only explanation for growth, as opposed to more mundane explanations like "better technology".

>My parents, who live in Italy, could afford a stone house from the 1800s in their thirties. I live in Canada and everything's made of wood and snot and and costs a fortune.

Seems like a stretch to blame this on "enshittification" when North American houses have been made of wood for centuries.

I didn’t mean it’s the only explanation, but it sure is a knob that companies use to tune “growth” (or fake growth, for that matter), among other things like better technology.